Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Message-ID: <20010709092743.K80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpd77bou0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:55:55AM %2B0200 References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <p05100302b76e6fce91c0@[194.78.241.123]> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> <xzpd77bou0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Monday, 9 July 2001 at 1:55:55 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> writes: >> The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM >> PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for >> business purposes. > > Why not? UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is > better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris. I don't think any free operating system comes close to Solaris or AIX when it comes to SMP scalability. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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