[mohaa] curious behavior

[Matthew Hall]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Charles "BedMan" Bedford wrote:

> Depends on the app.  There are positives and negatives for most of the
> operating systems you can find.
>
> Solaris is typically slower than Linux or BSD on PC's, because it's designed
> for SPARC in general, but also because it's a monolithic kernel and has a
> great deal of services built into it.

Being as that I'm primarily a Solaris admin, I should chime in here.
Yes, it's a bit slower. It didn't earn the nickname Slowlaris for
nothing. However, it is quite probably one of the more stable OS's
I've used. Coupled with Sun Hardware, and OpenBoot (sorta equiv of the
PC BIOS, but better), you can diagnose, troubleshoot your hardware
right from there. You can netboot them, and install from a Jumpstart
server automatically (Better than Kickstart will ever be), you can
attach a terminal to the serial port and see all bootup messages and
errors, and remotely administer the machine - even rebooting, applying
patches, etc. Once these machines are properly setup, you don't ever
have to touch them again - (except for the occasional patch cluster).

With the latest Sol8 and Sol9, you even have all the GNU tools you've
grown accustomed to.

I hope that my simplified explanation makes sense. :)

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