Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Robert Escue wrote:
And there are a number of people still spreading the "slowaris" FUD
around as if it is a matter of fact (which it isn't).
Depending on what you are doing, the characterizations of Solaris_86
as "Slowaris", or more particularly, "slOLDwaris", have a lot of
truth and definitely do not fit into the definition of FUD, because
they originated from Solaris-SPARC users.
The combination of Athlon64/Opteron and Solaris_86 10 completely
changed all that. If anything, Sun did a very poor job of getting
this message spread.
One of the most exciting aspects of OpenSolaris is that, if you have
been following Sun's Blogs, many Sun's developers are triple-booting
their Ferrari notebooks with WinXP, Solaris, and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is
the hippest Linux distro; it makes most other Linux distros, including
even the most trendy Fedora Core, look like your grandpa's OS.
Imagining if the number of these developers can quickly reach a
critical mass and unleash a special strain of OpenSolaris that will
eliminate the need for the other two OS's? Can hardly wait for this
to happen!
I would be careful here, because in the 12 years I have worked with Sun
products I have never heard the term "slowaris" used by any system
administrator I have worked with. I have read it a number of times and
Googling the term produces some interesting results (mostly from the VMS
and Linux crowd). And which SPARC users are you referring to?
And just how did AMD CPU's change the performance characteristics of
Solaris x86? My experience with Operton CPU's indicate that any OS
installed on a system using them is fast! RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
screams on the 7 V20z's we have running at the moment.
Prior to Solaris 10 if you used an IDE system you had to make changes to
two system files to get the system to use UltraDMA transfer modes. Once
that was done the performance difference was "night and day".
Speed is not everything, I prefer stability.
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