Re: My first question on Debian
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:38:37 -0400
> From: Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>
> To: Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>
> Cc: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: My first question on Debian
> Resent-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:41:05 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org> writes:
>
> > On Monday 19 May 2003 19:53, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> >
> >> The Hurd is the drog of gnu people (The Hurd is a new and "perfect"
> >> kernel they are developing for some time now).
> >
> > Well it depends on what you call perfect. I personally wouldn't call a
> > kernel which has been in alpha stage for 10 years, and can not still
> > run a single usefull application, perfect.
>
> I've personnaly used it and it runs emacs, apache, ssh, X, gimp,
> mplayer (no sound...), etc. But yeah it's not perfect.
>
> > Perfect in my opinion is the solaris kernel, if it was licenes under GNU
> > GPL, I would have switched overnight.
> >
> > Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply
> > remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single
> > reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect.
>
> Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple
> of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them.
>
> Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't
> think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just
> replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers
> are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves.
>
> Bijan
I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86.
And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware.
cheers,
Mihalis.
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