From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 16:57:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEA637B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 723836ACC1; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Pedro F Giffuni , Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Message-ID: <20010709092743.K80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:55:55AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 9 July 2001 at 1:55:55 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Pedro F Giffuni writes: >> The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM >> PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for >> business purposes. > > Why not? UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is > better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris. I don't think any free operating system comes close to Solaris or AIX when it comes to SMP scalability. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message