[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[sammy ominsky]

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