If you really want to have the best of both worlds, you could get
a SUN Server hardware, partition the hard disk and install Solaris
(get version 8) and Linux Mandrake 7 for SPARC (ISO is available for
download at ftp.linux.tucows.com). Why don't you try it out...
I would have to say that the SUN hardware is very reliable, we have a
first generation SUN SparcStation 2 still running (bought 1992); but
its performance is just like a 486DX2-66. We use it as an NFS server.
The only problem we had was that PSPI (now SUN Philippines) really charged
bloated prices for the memory and hard disk upgrades.
Ambo
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> ..
> > We are considering a Sun server for use as a webserver (with database backend
> > support for an e-commerce site) + FTP + e-mail + DNS. For these purposes, is
> > Linux+Sun a recommendable solution? Are there differences in the binaries to be
> ..
>
> No it's not, unless you're using a really old Sun (SS5 or similar
> level). Sorry to burst your bubble, but Solaris is a superior, more
> feature-rich, stable OS than Linux. It may be bigger and slower, but the
> main reason for buying a Sun is not speed -- x86 is definitely faster --
> but reliability.
>
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