[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[sammy ominsky]

On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 09:21 US/Eastern, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> Imho, package management is the main selling point for a distribution 
> :-)

As my high-school math teacher used to say "You have a right to your 
opinion, but you're wrong".

8-)

There are minor differences between the various linux distributions 
that make people prefer one over the other, but As Far As I Know, 
nobody LOVES RPM enough to choose Red Hat just for it.

I think at this point, it's all dependent on ease-of-use. The 
distribution with the simplest install wins. When I need a box up and 
running, I want to know I can just slip in my cd (regardless of who 
made it), fill in a few blanks, and go.

If, on the other hand, you have the time, energy and know-how, there 
are a dozen other optioons out there to allow you to build the system 
YOU want, with literally any level of ease or difficulty you want. None 
of them are consistent with any of the others as to package manager. 
One that's become insanely popular among the local linux geeks is 
gentoo, which uses no package manager at all. 'Splain that? And 
Slackware?

Anyway, who am I to talk? I have one linux box at home, and it's 
running Red Hat 6.2 /SPARC.


---sambo
on a Mac