On Friday 07 October 2005 08:06 pm, S Destika wrote: > 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.
This statement is so wrong, since you give nothing to back it up. For instance, are you talking about the Linux 2.0.xx kernel? Linux 2.2.xx kernel? Linux 2.4.xx kernel? Linux 2.6.xx kernel? And how do you calculate speed? Is it on a system with 80% load, or 5% load. Everything is relative. What Linux kernel do most shops run in production? The way I see it, many people change their kernel on Linux at the same pace they change their underwear. There are features in Solaris that will take years for Linux to duplicate, if they can duplicate it at all. At some point the Linux kernel will need to be re-written, while Solaris can build upon it's base. Many shops have been running Solaris for more than a decade, while Linux wasn't very usable a decade ago. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
