Re: Sun SparcStation cheap ?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:00

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XIAO <xiaobajie@hotmail.com> writes:

>I am just wondering which UNIX is running faster on SUN Sparcstation
>IPX?

>Solaris or Linux ?

Linux will run faster because there's less bulkiness, but Solaris has better
support for 3rd-party hardware and software.

>Compare to the Intel platform ?

Can't really compare Sun boxes to Intel machines since the architecture is
completely different.

IPX's are ideal small, affordable machines to learn about Unix with. Be
careful though since they are no longer supported by Sun, and future
releases of Solaris will probably not run on them.

You have other choices for operating systems too btw. NetBSD and OpenBSD
both support the sun-4c family. I've got NetBSD running on a Sparc Classic
here as my FTP server and it doesn't give any problems.

Regards,

Craig.
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Date: 2000/02/14
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