\begin{Scott Howard}
> 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 its much easier to administer when all your other machines are
debian boxen too
why would you run solaris 8 ?
(on an E250+, perhaps.. but why on the low-end / well-supported sparcs?)
about all my unscientific and narrow experience with solaris has shown
me is that solaris is good at threads. since i don't use anything that
thrives on threads (i actively avoid java), i've never found the
selling point.
compared to your average linux distro, solaris is a real pita to
setup/admin/use too (ok rachel, thats probably because i'm extremely
unfamiliar with solaris). you end up having to replace everything with
the gnu versions anyway before you can use the thing..
i found the solaris package management stuff quite poor too, but jill
was trying to convince me otherwise last time we talked and we never
finished that conversation..
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