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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. Huzzah! by gazbo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Proof positive that Linux is faster than a famously half-arsed unoptimisedport of an operating system! I'll break out the Champagne; for a victory of this magnitude we'll need something extremely expensive - like Cava.

  2. Whereas Linux is still in the 1980's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll


    command line ? shells ? compilers ? terminals ?

    sounds like its still stuck there, even my Atari had a GUI

  3. This begs the question... by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...who the hell still runs Solaris x86?

    It's like Windows NT for Alpha... there's no point.

    - A.P.

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