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From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: www.softpanorama.org: sparc_vs_x86 fun
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:59:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000605041159n772abb78od0b6b3a82113ff42@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8jejzavwxk.fsf@ritchie.ping.uio.no>

On 5/4/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> jimmy <jimmyb@huawei.com> writes:
>
> >> http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/Linux_vs_Solaris/sparc_vs_x86.shtml
> >>
> >>> ...
> >>> Actually Linux used to be more heterogeneous in the past when it
> >>> supported Alpha. But those days are long gone.
> >>> ...
> > someone should send these guys a directory listing of linux/arch/
>
> I think he's confusing Red Hat with Linux. But these days even Red Hat
> supports more architectures than Solaris: i386, amd64, ia64, ppc64 and
> s390.
>

Don't pay too much attention:

"I have a subjective impression that networking in Linux is less
sophisticated..."

"As for LDAP quality I have no data but suspect that Solaris has an
upper hand..."

"Based on my limited knowledge of Linux kernel development it looks
like Linux development suffered from a classic case of premature
optimization disease..."

--
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04  9:24 Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-04 10:56 ` jimmy
2006-05-04 11:41   ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2006-05-04 18:59     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-05-04 11:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-04 22:51   ` David S. Miller
2006-05-09 14:39   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-12 15:18     ` Jan Engelhardt

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