[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

Actually Torvalds stated that linux would never run on anything non X86.
<grin>  Everyone makes mistakes.
	Nick

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Roger Walkup wrote:

> Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >   That explains it.  I know I'm treading on thin ice here...and let me
> > state that, while I primarily am a BSD hack, I do have several Linux
> > boxes and I love them all dearly...but many people have found that
> > Linux performs a bit poorly on sun4c-architecture machines
> > (sparcstation1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC).  For much, much better
> > than 486/anything performance from an IPX, I'd suggest moving to one
> > of the BSDs...NetBSD or OpenBSD will run fine on the IPX.
> >
> >   I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm not an anti-Linux person,
> > blah blah blah...I've just run a *lot* of hardware in a lot of
> > different places and I've seen big differences in performance.  Linux
> > is famous for wringing amazing amounts of performance out of even the
> > lowest-end Intel box...this is not so on smaller sparcstations.
> >
> >          -Dave McGuire
> >
> 
> Linux was created (AFAIK) on and for intel; the sparc port is just for us
> wackadoos.
> 
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