On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> At 05:10 PM 10/13/00 -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> >The PC will be working with an Informix (or maybe another) database
> > server. It will have an apache, with PHP. Those would be the most
> > important things this machine would do.
> >The PC will have SCSI disks and a SCSI tape for backups.
>
> Configured cleverly Linux will (IMHO) outperform Solaris in this situation.
> PHP, and most (read "all large") database servers, are highly dependant on
> disk I/O. Linux will allow you to configure RAID-0 in software (in my
> experience this does tend to increase disk throughput to 150 or 200% of
> normal, in fact it seems to let a pair of UDMA-IDE drives on separate
> controllers easily outperform an Ultra3 SCSI drive. . .), and Solaris
> won't, so Linux will allow these services to operate more quickly. Of
> course you can run Solaris (or Linux) with a hardware RAID controller and
> get the same effect OS independently. AFAIK there is no software-only RAID
> support in any version of SunOS.
> Also I don't know of any user-friendly equivalent of the RPM system
> (unless you count the somewhat dubious port of RPM itself to Solaris86) for
> SunOS/Solaris, so you would probably be spending a good deal more
> time/effort compiling and installing stuff than you would on a Linux system
> (using RPM or Debian package management).
> Last, I must concur with whoever told you to get opinions on why Solaris86
> is a better idea on a Solaris mailing list :) If I preferred it I would
> probably use it instead of Linux (the best argument I've heard so far is
> "it means my Sun machines and my PC's are running just about the same
> platform", which I solved with the Sparc distribution of Redhat &
> Powertools myself. . .)
I have to say that my questions are aimed on arguments to get the people here
(who are not excelent technitians, but are not ignorantes neither).
I think I will ask in the Solaris list too. Thanks for the kind answers.
(At home, I use Linux :-) )
--
"And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall
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