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Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-to-the-finish dept.

JigSaw writes "Tony Bourke put together a long article, benchmarking File System, System, Compilation, OpenSSL and Web Performance for both Linux and Solaris on x86 hardware. While SPARC's Solaris is said to be more optimized than its x86 counterpart on the other hand so is Linux 2.6 compared to 2.4. Solaris-x86 performed well in the tests, but Linux 2.4 seems to win most of the tests and the overall impressions."

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  1. You are missing the point by ultrabot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux has no place on Server. Period. Solaris is industrial strength, mature, stable and rock-solid. It has the "secret sauce" that even SCO doesn't know of. It brings Value to Enterprise, unlike that hobbyist jalopy OS. After all, it's about Systems. Now you can use commodity x86 hardware with the OS made in heaven.

    And yeah, almost forgot, lots of mobile phones run Java.

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