[SunRescue] Solaris 8

[John F. Davis]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:42:56PM +0000, Brian McCloskey wrote:
> thats kind of an arbitrary question and not easy to answer without defining 
> some kind of metric.

As a general OS goes, which will be faster, solaris or linux.

> 
> also, what are you referring to as the "working free kernels"? if you mean 
> linux, the ultraSPARC kernel is most definitely 64bit and was written by 
> sun. i believe the bsd kernel for ultraSPARC is also 64bit. if you're 
> talking about intel, its all 32bit obviously.

>From what I understand, the sparc64 port is still not ready for prime time.
Whereas the 32-bit port works like a champ. Furthermore, all of userspace code
in Linux/BSD is 32 bits.  I don't know if that is the case or not in
Solaris.

So given a faster kernel, but the same 32 apps will Solaris apps run faster
than the comparable linux apps.  Or, to put it bluntly, will Staroffice run
faster on a Solaris Ultra than a Linux Ultra?   Will the JVM run faster?
etc.

I'm sorry if I was unclear.  I'm getting a new Ultra and I want to know if
it would be better to run Solaris or stick with Linux.  Up to now, I have
only run Linux or BSD on all my Sparc boxes. But, then again, I've never
owned a new Sparc box.  All my experience has been with 5's, 10's, and
LX's.

John

> 
> -wu
> 
> 
> >From: "John F. Davis" <davis at skink.net>
> >Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Solaris 8
> >Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:20:08 -0500
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >How much faster does solaris 8 run than Linux/FreeBSD?  I understand
> >that only the kernel is 64bits in Solaris and the working free kernels
> >are 32bit.
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:58:45AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > > Not generally available, and the x86 distribution, if it is anything 
> >like
> > > SPARC, is more than 1 CD.
> > > Even more if you include any other shipping utilities/tools...
> > >
> > > Sorry for the bad news...
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Clay Mellender" <claym at mellender.org>
> > > To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:59 AM
> > > Subject: [SunRescue] Solaris 8
> > >
> > >
> > > > Anybody know where I can download an .iso Image of solaris 8 x86?  I
> > > filled
> > > > out the binary license agreement, but as I am unemployed at the moment 
> >I
> > > can
> > > > not easily afford the 80 bucks for the media.
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > >
> > > > Clay Mellender
> > > >
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