[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[Chris Byrne]

Why such a problem with Red Hat? And does that problem also extend to
Mandrake and other RedHatbased distributions?

Is it the fact that they are actually trying to make money in a rational
and possibly eventually sucessful way, or is it just their general
cluelessness?

Because I wiill definitely admit, since they went public they have
slipped further and further down the cluechain, but the fact is if it
werent for RedHat Linux would be MAYBE a tenth of what it is today in
terms of commercial and public acceptance. 

That being said, the fact that RedHat essentially controls the de facto
commercial standard has also probably held a lot of things back.
Mandrake has done a very good job of pushing Red Hat on, probably faster
than they'd like because those damend dfrenchies always seem to have
just a little bit better features and ideas. Of course the fact that
they have a lot less basic scutwork to do because of Red Hat is what
LETS them have those cool features and ideas. Aint open source grand. 

I tried installing Sol8 on my Dual PPRO 200 box last year, but I
couldn't get it running properly. Im guessing this is due to the
somewhat propietary nature of it, being an intergraph box, and not the
fault of the OS. Running sol 7  c86 could best be described as painful.
I have no experience with 9.

I've had the best experiences using BSD based OS's on my PPRO machines,
but as you said, there are issues.

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan C. Patschke
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 23:28
> To: Geeks
> Subject: [geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance
> 
> 
> I'm contemplating a recommendation that $work move to Solaris/x86 for
> a dozen or so machines (CVS, DNS, DHCP, and other small services).
> Currently, there are three machines, one is running Windows 2000, one
> DeadRat Linux 7.x, and one FreeBSD 4.x.  Since we've got a handful of
> SPARCs doing other things, Solaris would help keep the number of OSes
> I have to support down to a minimum.  Solaris also sounds like a good
> idea because OpenBSD doesn't support SMP, NetBSD's SMP support is very
> green, and I don't like FreeBSD well enough to want to support 12
> machines of it.
> 
> I'd recommend Linux, but I manglement will insist on running DeadRat
> (since they've already "bought a license" for it), and I'd rather run
> Windows than that.
> 
> However, I'm leery of Solaris 9/x86.  Some of these machines are
> "lowly" dual Pentium PRO machines, and the last time I installed
> Solaris 7 on a dual Pentium PRO machine, the result was something even
> -less- responsive than 2.6 on a SPARCstation 1+.
> 
> Has the performance gotten any better?
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Patschke  *)  "everything i know about animals i learned from
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