Lincoln Rutledge Network Engineer OSC Networking 800-627-6420

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Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@hotpop.com> 01/26/08 6:48 AM >>> Chuck wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 1:44 PM, Lincoln Rutledge <lincolnr@oar.net> wrote: Hi Simon,

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teach TCP and Unix system administration in 1994, and other than Linux, I'm mostly a Solaris body. I have 3 Linux systems at home, two of which dual-boot with windows so I can run Photoshop in a color managed environment. I use VMWare for some other windows stuff that's less crucial to me. I also have a dual processor SPARC/Solaris 10 system. I loath and detest bill gates and everything he stands for. I regularly point out to

I'm old school too. But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :) Linux and x86-64 are NOW!

lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the opposite... Sparc IV+ & Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive -- its damn good.

That might have been true 5 years ago.... Sun is going to abandon the SPARC soon. As much as I despise the Intel x86 with its architecture and annoying instruction set, it IS the future of high- end computing. HP-UX was ported from PA-RISC to x86 AIX is being ported from the p5 to x86 Solaris has been ported to x86 -- and the x86 version is no longer a crufty toy like it used to be -- Sun has thrown in a well-rounded effort to finally provide the x86 version with all the drivers as the Sparc version. The only major Unix that I'm unsure of at this point is SGI. Sun doesn't have enough sales to keep the SPARC performance competitive with HP and IBM machines loaded up with x86's which have the development overhead spread over hundreds of millions of units rather than tens of thousands for SPARC and whatever SGI us using lately. Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. (and the field can't be reduced below two, because every competent military purchasing department on the planet requires that all electronic components be "2nd-sourced" -- so if AMD fails, then Intel is cut out of that lucrative market until such time that another company is up and running as a "2nd source" of Intel-like CPUs -- This is why Intel keeps AMD abreast of their future designs -- if AMD can't duplicate Intel functionality, then Intel loses). Hehehe, didn't mean to start a war about Sun. I loved DEC and Sun and all the cool hardware, but x86 (and now x86-64) has swallowed it. Google uses x86 and Linux for a reason. I have a Sun and a PowerPC machine and I mostly keep them around for nostalgia, I loved them, but they are yesterday :) Linc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org