From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 20 9:18: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 09:18:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB8837B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:18:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 148mBT-0006Qo-00; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:33:43 -0800 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:33:40 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Oliver Blasnik Cc: Shawn Ramsey , sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) In-Reply-To: <008e01c06a6d$8006e950$6560310a@intern.nextra.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Oliver Blasnik wrote: > Hi there, > > Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > Of course not! Now that Solaris 8 is available for x86 for media costs > > only (about $75), there really is no real reason to consider Linux for > > running Typhoon. Solaris has a much better thread implementation as well, > > which should really benefit Typhoon. > > Ok, now absolutely off-topic *eg*: > > You're correct, the Media is about 75$. But you do only get the licence for > private use - check that out. And Sol/x86 is really, really expensive, com- > pared to Sol/Sparc (ok, _then_ it's the hardware...). > Or have I missed something? You must. I have a copy of the license, and it allows me to use Solaris x86 for any purpose. It is basically a site license for X machines in my organization. > Btw, we are also planning to use Typhoon on Solaris, but on Sparc > Architecture. A nice Raid-Array (0+1) attached for Storage - and then using > compression, it's cheaper. My Lab-Setup showed me about 30% compression > all over a big8+binaries feed. > > > Tom > > Cu, Oliver > -- > -- http://www.nextra.de - INTERNET@WORK ----- oliver.blasnik@nextra.de -- > Nextra Deutschland | Oliver Blasnik Senior System Administrator > GmbH & Co KG | Lyoner Strasse 26 D-60528 Frankfurt > Engineering TA&S | tel +49-69-66441-0 fax +49-69-66441-199 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message