[Gllug] Recommended distro

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Mon Dec 13 11:00:41 UTC 2004


Joel Bernstein wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
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>Too slow? Are you making the common mistake of assuming that MHz is a
>decent measurement of CPU performance across architectures? 
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No.

Go price up a sparc box that's equivalent to a dual opteron 242 with 2gb 
RAM.  Then go find out how much sparc kit you get for the same price 
you'd pay for a dual opteron.

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