[Linux-Discussion] Re: Beginner's Guide to Linux Apps
- From: Nils Vogels <nivo+linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:28:17 +0200
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:29:00AM -0500, John Madden wrote:
[ apps on linux? ]
> I'm pretty sure the only reason Linux doesn't "scale" as well as Solaris
> is due to the fact that Linux isn't available on UltraSparc yet (right?),
> and certainly doesn't support things like hot-swappable CPU's and RAM, as
> Solaris does. Solaris is no more stable, and aside from the [*much*]
> better hardware, is no faster than Linux.
>
Try looking for UltraPenguin.. Linux has been running on a sparc as of at
least kernel 2.0.16 (thats when I tried it out)
> Got an NT box doing a lot of work somewhere that you can "afford" to try
> out Linux on? I doubt you'll ever look back once you've seen domain
> controlling and file/printer sharing under Samba versus NT.
>
Right .. it's easier and more straightforward .. its kind of a shame that
adding computers to the domain is so much manual work tho..
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