People are always trying to compare linux/intel against sparc/solaris or intel/solaris on 1 and 2 processor boxes and it simply is not fair.
When you consider what an OS has to do to keep scaling as you add very large amounts of memory and more processors, add separate run queues (one for each processor), fine grained locking primitives and lots of other overhead to keep scaling in a near-linear fashion, that on a single processor box your gonna get your goose cooked when compared to a less scaleable, more simplified OS (which is exaclty what linux is..).
Please don't drag an 18 wheeler out on the freeway and race it with your porsche unless your gonna strap on a trailer with 50,000lbs of carrots in the back to the porsche!
The Enterprisability of Linux for vertical scaling applications still isn't there.
1) There is no path_to_inst like functionality to make devices stay put. If you add/delete a card, your devices move around. This just doesn't cut it from the managability aspect.
2) Unless you find that specific distro version from that specific vendor, and strip a ton of stuff off, your not going to get as stable as an OS as Solaris, period. Save the rants about your 300+ days of uptime because just because you can make your linux distro stable, doesn't mean that linux *is* as stable as Solaris, HPUX or AIX.
I believe the law is pretty loose in stating something along the lines hat it is unlawful to access a computer in a way that was not authorized by the owner of that computer.
So just because we can go to yahoo.com doesn't mean that we are allowed to telnet or ssh to yahoo.com and do whatever we want. Similarly (yet a little more hair splitting) If Kazaa wanted you to be able to get a users ip address, they would probably show as a field in their GUI interface.
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People are always trying to compare linux/intel against sparc/solaris or intel/solaris on 1 and 2 processor boxes and it simply is not fair. When you consider what an OS has to do to keep scaling as you add very large amounts of memory and more processors, add separate run queues (one for each processor), fine grained locking primitives and lots of other overhead to keep scaling in a near-linear fashion, that on a single processor box your gonna get your goose cooked when compared to a less scaleable, more simplified OS (which is exaclty what linux is ..).
Please don't drag an 18 wheeler out on the freeway and race it with your porsche unless your gonna strap on a trailer with 50,000lbs of carrots in the back to the porsche!
The Enterprisability of Linux for vertical scaling applications still isn't there.
1) There is no path_to_inst like functionality to make devices stay put. If you add/delete a card, your devices move around. This just doesn't cut it from the managability aspect.
2) Unless you find that specific distro version from that specific vendor, and strip a ton of stuff off, your not going to get as stable as an OS as Solaris, period. Save the rants about your 300+ days of uptime because just because you can make your linux distro stable, doesn't mean that linux *is* as stable as Solaris, HPUX or AIX.
I believe the law is pretty loose in stating something along the lines hat it is unlawful to access a computer in a way that was not authorized by the owner of that computer.
So just because we can go to yahoo.com doesn't mean that we are allowed to telnet or ssh to yahoo.com and do whatever we want. Similarly (yet a little more hair splitting) If Kazaa wanted you to be able to get a users ip address, they would probably show as a field in their GUI interface.