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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. SPARC's Solaris? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Uhm, shouldn't that read "Sun's Solaris" ?

    SPARC is the hardware the NON-x86 version of Solaris can run on (SPARC 5, etc).

  2. DRANO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I had nothing special to say at the moment. I just wanted you to think of drano. Now, try this: "DON'T THINK OF DRANO!!!" Couldn't do it? Thought so.