[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[Dave McGuire]

  He did indeed say that.  I think it was actually in an early Linux
FAQ that I first saw that quote.

  It is impressive that it runs (or "sorta" runs) on so many other
platforms.  With other free, solid, established OSs already available
for those platforms, though, it just makes me shake my head and wonder
WHY.  Linux is THE GOOD STUFF on i386 boxes.  Leave it there!

       -Dave McGuire

On July 7, nick at ns.snowman.net wrote:
> 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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