Linux to Replace Solaris at Duke

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 13, 2005 @09:44AM from the post-pepsi-generation dept.

wwhsgrad2002 writes "At the end of the 2004-2005 academic year, the Sun Solaris computers available in public computing labs at Duke University will be replaced. The replacement computers in these spaces will be Dells, running a version of Centos 3.3 as supported by Linux@DUKE. Pragmatic and technical considerations have driven this change, as Linux continues to gain a greater userbase and more third-party commercial software is made available on the platform. Are other universities eliminating Solaris in favor of a Linux distribution?"

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Re:Linux / Sparc by turgid · 2005-04-13 09:59 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Well, that's silly. Solaris kicks Linux's arse on UltraSPARC hardware.
What's doubly silly is going from 64-bit SPARC running Solaris to 32-bit intel (Dell) running Linux.
Going to 64-bit AMD running Linux (or even Solaris) I could understand...
It makes me feel conceited to think that I know better than wise and learned university staff.

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