It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than Solaris. Till Solaris 10 the gap in performance was _huge_. I speak this from realworld experience. But people who have used Solaris 10 claim it has gotten a lot better.
If I was trolling, I wouldn't have commented on reliability and scalability - Solaris wins there and again this is commonly known. Any way, I was merely offering a balanced view. To the OP: Do you think reading technical documents on CPU architecture and marketing material is going to tell you which CPU is better? In that case you might land up using IA64 - it's the best CPU architecture. But if you take general opinion - it sucks in reality due to lack of capable compilers and backward compatibility. First define what you want to do with the CPU - For home and general use, as I said Opteron is the best bet today without needing to read the CPU manuals and marketing materials. If you need technical comparison between CPU arches - I don't think one single person is going to be able to do a fair, comprehensive and useful comparison involving such a complex technical subject. This probably is a big project in itself. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
