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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."

4 of 320 comments (clear)

  1. Hardly definitive by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see nothing in the article about a steel cage. You call that a smack-down?

  2. Re:Huh, because both are unoptimized? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    > You're comparing apples and oranges,

    Huh? Mac wasnt even in the article!

    Talk about RTFA...

  3. Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Solaris is great!
    Or so the Slashdot troll said,
    Linux like stale bread!

  4. Re:Solaris: Time machine to the 1980s by jedidiah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bill Joy doesn't even use vi anymore.

    The rest of you should take that as a hint.

    At least RMS eats his own dog food (emacs).

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