[SunRescue] How FAST is a SUN IPC

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

I couldn't explain the developers reasons, but by the time I'm done with a
Solaris install the difference between it and a linux install is the
kernel, and all the garbage utils solaris ships with <grin>.
	Nick

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   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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