[rescue] Recommended patches

Thomas Steffen rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 3 02:02:17 CST 2001


Kevin Loch <kloch at gurunet.net> writes:

> Now this is interesting.  I thought the concensus was that 8 is
> faster than 7 or 6 *if* you have enough ram *and* you disable all
> the fluff.  Is that not true on sun4m?  

Good question. I have a SPARC LX and I am currently using 2.6. 96 MB
of RAM are plenty for what I am doing (pppoe, proxy cache and
ghostscript printer spooler), but maybe not for Solaris 8?

The only advantage of 8 I can see is UDF-writing, if I ever get my
CD-Writer working. 

		    Thomas <thomas.steffen at uni-bochum.de>
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