[sclug] [OT] Solaris vs. Linux

[Jon Masters]

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Will Dickson wrote:

| Jon Masters wrote:


|> | Now, it's not an entirely fair test (the SPARC is hugely less powerful
|> | than my x86 box, and Sol 9 has very recently been replaced by Sol 10)
|> | but if the Solaris desktop guys aren't scared of penguins, they
|> | ought to be.

jcm>> That is completely unfair. Solaris runs like a dog on my
jcm>> SPARCstation (but it does run

| For more general values of "not entirely fair", then :-) I was being
| rude about how crude the UI felt

They could have perhaps tweaked their GNOME based interface more however
on the whole I find it stable and more useful than CDE.

|> The Sun compiler is probably ok if you like that sort of thing. I prefer
|> using gcc and most other folks seem to agree.

| Exactly my point. Especially at that price.

I would like to see some comparisons that don't involve gcc 2.95. I hope
gcc 3.3.x will provide some very favourable results. Especially where
instruction scheduling and other RISC issues are concerned - I know
Intel based folks won't see those improvements to the same degree.

|> [0] Sun Management Console. Explicit evidence in the campaign to improve
|> the efficiency of many Java programs in general.

| There's been a lot of work done on that recently, and if you compare a
| given Java program running on the current JRE vs the same program
| running on an older version, it shows.

Sure. Actually this reminds me - I'm going to ask you all if anyone uses
the ultra module on SPARC Linux to run Sun Java? Any issues with that?

| It seems a bit silly to write that kind of program in Java, mind you

Yeah but we already did that conversation elsewhere.

Jon.
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