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Ubuntu on Sun hardware runs better than Slowaris
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:39 am
by Patrick
Not at all surprising:
http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2006/04 ... -on-t2000/
Gee Linux runs better on Sun hardware than Solaris does, Linux runs better on Apple hardware than OSX. Am I the only person who sees a pattern here!
Re: Ubuntu on Sun hardware runs better than Slowaris
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:26 pm
by Tsuroerusu
Patrick wrote:Linux runs better on Apple hardware than OSX.
You're damn right about that!
I have a PowerPC-based Mac mini, and Fedora Core 5, which was the last Linux distro I tried on it (Right now it runs OpenBSD 3.9), runs so much smoother.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:55 pm
by Wally Balljacker
I didn't even know that Ubuntu ran on SPARC machines. After searching around, it seems that Dapper should support three new architectures: SPARC, HPPA, and IA64.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:03 pm
by thetza
does anyone actually use IA64 nowadays? I wonder how to compares to AMD64 in terms of price/performance
Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:22 pm
by Tsuroerusu
thetza wrote:does anyone actually use IA64 nowadays? I wonder how to compares to AMD64 in terms of price/performance
IA64 is basically Itanium and Itanium 2 processors from Intel, and let me just tell you something, you don't want one of these because they'll put pain into your pockets.