[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 @ 18:29 +0200, Jochen Kunz said:

> Especially for low end stuff. I hope they are selling them with
> Slowlaris and not Linsux. An other company selling Linsux PeeCees is
> not what we need.

True.

However, I'm not sure a Solaris PeeCee is any better than a Linux
PeeCee.

Every time I've tried Solaris x86, it was markedly inferior to Linux and
NetBSD.  Buggy, unstable, and with little driver support (especially
video).

I didn't try Solaris 9 or the 10 betas, because I've been burned to
the point where I just didn't want to fuss with it.  7 and 8 was just
terrible on the PC.

Even on my Sun hardware, I run NetBSD instead of Solaris.  A lot of that
is due to the age of my hardware.  NetBSD is less weight for an old SS5
to carry.

> SGI sells the Altix with Linsux, but an Altix is no PeeCee. It is a
> Origin 3000 with the MIPS CPU replaced by Itanic.
> 
> To be honest: I wold like to get an Altix 350 to start NetBSD/ia64.

I'd like to have one, period.

I still like the Origins though, and hope one of these days I can afford
to pick up an Orign 200 to play with.  Nothing like the ones I used to
have at work, but enough for me to do real work with.

> > Of course with the possibility of Solaris 10 on the PowerPC, they
> > could end up going that route.
> I don't think they will do that. Too much IBM dependency on PPC.
> 
> > It's a shame that the "small" companies didn't see this coming 5 years
> > ago and collaborate on a common design. Probably too late now though.
> 
> Itanic _is_ the common design, but finaly only HP and Intel where left.

I don't think anyone else was ever serious about it though.


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