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At 02:53 AM 6/21/95 -0700, you wrote: >> I'm just wondering. I'm a user of both Solaris and Linux, and I frankly >> can't see an argument for Solaris over Linux. Is it that Solaris' meagre >> software base is bigger that Linux's? > Here at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the computer science department just purchased a hundred or so Pentiums with big fat monitors, etc. Then, we went about deciding which Unix x86 operating system to run. We evaluated Linux, Solaris x86, and NetBSD. We posted the results of lots & lots of our tests, which include speed benchmarks (disk access, network access, compilation time, X windows performance, etc), as well as compatibility with standards (POSIX, ANSI, etc). Check out the following URL on the WWW if you want to learn from our experiences: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/csl/unix-pc/unix-criteria.html. Being a University and a major research institution, we were more interested in things like suitability as a speedy development environment as opposed to things like commercial package availability (although some commercial packages, like TransArcs AFS, are critical to us). A BIG MAJOR advantage to Solaris x86 over the others comes into play IF your organization already has lots of Sun SPARC systems running Solaris (like we do). With Solaris x86, all system management and software porting only needs to be done once for both platforms (SPARC and Pentium). If you already support lots of Sun SPARCS and then add Linux, for example, you would need to port software twice, learn various administration tasks twice, etc. If you do not already run Solaris SPARC systems, then Linux and NetBSD are on a much more level playing field.... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Todd Tannenbaum email: tannenba@engr.wisc.edu Director of the Model Advanced Facility voice phone: (608) 262-3118 Computer-Aided Engineering Center FAX phone: (608) 265-4546 University of Wisconsin-Madison