There is a substantial difference. See the essay by Maddog. A link is available at www.linuxmall.com on their news ticker. Basically, Linux has never been prepared for the mid-range server market and is not really a 24/7 system ...Yet. It doesn't have the facilities needed to handle a fail-soft on a hard disk for example. Still there is a linux distribution for the Sparc and it is likely as stable or more stable than the Solaris distribution, it just doesn't have the facilities to handle failing hardware in a non-stop fashion. Linux is great on desktops and low-end servers, ansd super on supercomputers, but mid-range servers was an unanticipated market and Linux needs to catch up.
Civileme
Duncan Hall wrote:
Hi all,My boss wants to move our largest servers over to Sun Solaris on the Sparc. I'm not to keen on this as Linux has been so very good to us for three years now.
Is there a distrobution that will run linux on the Sparc environment? If so how does it compare to solaris?
Thanks
Dunc
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