[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[Brian]

Just as an fyi, there is a large yahoo group full of Solaris x86 members
at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solaris-x86/.

	Bri


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, sammy ominsky wrote:

> On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 01:59 US/Eastern, Jonathan C. Patschke
> wrote:
>
> > RPM is fragile shit
>
>
> SO don't use it. A package mangler^Wmanager is NOT the essence of a
> distribution. Grab tarballs, and build from source. especially easy on
> a consistent hardware/software platform, where you build once and roll
> to a number of boxes.
>
> At my ex-office, there were a couple thousand linux boxes, and 8
> Sol/x86 boxes that were the biggest pain in the ass you could possibly
> bear from production systems without throwing them off the roof of a
> tall building. The device support is SO limited, you better make sure
> you go shopping first with the hardware list in hand. Then, when you
> get them up and running, it's NOT consistent with Sol/SPARC. There are
> enough similarities to make you THINK you're on a Solaris system, but
> then something changes, and all of a sudden you realize it's just a
> peecee.
>
> Feh.
>
>
> ---sambo
> /me is NOT a fan of Sol.x86
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