Scott Howard wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:32:08AM +0000, Ricky C wrote:
> > hi All,
> >
> > I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their
> > Sun box, say an Ultra 10
>
> Personally, Solaris 8.
>
> Out of interest (and I'm not trying to start a flame war here), why do you
> choose to run Linux on the Ultra, rather than Solaris?
Because Solaris earn't its nickname "Slowaris" for a reason. On a
single processor machine, linux tends to outrun Solaris.
Certainly, Solaris' UFS implementation is slow compared to Linux's
implementation of ext2. (compare the time it takes to build a zmailer
hash2 directory on Solaris vs Linux. Linux takes seconds. Solaris
takes minutes)
... but Solaris does have better hardware support, and seems to hold out
under high sustained loads better. Also, on the big SMP Suns, you'd
have be insane to run anything other than Solaris at this time [I'm
hoping I can retract this comment in the near future].
> > We had RH6.0 on an Ultra 10 machine with RAID 5 Storage Edge and its time to
> > upgrade it. RH doesn't do sparc anymore.
Debian/sparc is always a good bet. :)
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