Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SPARC Linux | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:55:17 -0600 | From | Warner Losh <> |
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: It works better than SunOS 4.1.3... =)
So you are saying that it can have uptimes of 100ish days, handle the news, mail, web load of an entire domain and have enough left over to do the odd compile now and again? If not, then it isn't working better than SunOS. We have an Solbourne OS/MP 4.1C machine here in the village that has these characteristics, although lately it has developed a hardware bug which hits once a month. Given the state of the network code in recent kernels, I seriously doubt that it is better than SunOS. OS/MP 4.1C is based on SunOS 4.1.3 and was produced by Solbourne for the MP and non MP machines. It will likely be a while before Linux reaches the OS/MP level of SMP robustness (typical test: on a 3 cpu machine, run 4 3-way makes of 200k lines of C++ at the same time. It may be slow, but it doesn't crash).
Oh, and if it is better than SunOS, then it is, by definition, better than Solaris :-).
That said, do keep up the good work!
Warner
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