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Sun is not the smartest company to begin with. Their stock is (or was) dropping for a reason. Their version of Unix is one of the WORST in the biz, and their hardware isn't too great either. God how I hate that company. VIA might actually improve them.Bart
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Sun's hardware is designed with reliability in mind, not performance. IIRC, the UltraSPARC or UltraSPARC II had one (yes, just ONE!) erratum, which was something like "a TLB miss takes a couple more clock cycles than documented in certain circumstances". And while I'm not all that intimate with Solaris, I think it's fair to say it still has the most formidable reputation for reliability and scalability in the Unix world, in fact probably anywhere.
All of which, of course, makes me doubly confused as to why the hell they'd use VIA hardware...Blah blah blah nick blah blah confusion, blah blah blah blah frog.
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Got to admit I haven't seen anything to say they're using via.
Sis or nvidea or amd no chipset has been mentioned. Unless I missed it.
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Ribbit: Solaris is an AWFUL OS. Period. The crown jewel of Unix OSes (based on what I've seen) is IBMs AIX. Hell, I recently had to allocate some SAN space to a Solaris server, and the pig required 2 reboots before it would even see the disk. THAT is just atrocious, and wouldn't have happened on AIX. Of course, it could be that our Solaris OS guys don't know what they're doing, but I don't think that was the case. DEATH TO SUN!!!! DEATH!!Bart
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Originally posted by The Rock
They also have cool colored servers with neat designs. They sure look good, until you use the OS and have to get support from them.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux
"if I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a bit?" --Zapp Brannigan
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Originally posted by TnT
LOL, that's what I've been saying about Macs.
Don't you know Macs don't crash didn't you know that.
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@ The PIT: you never used one or what? they were the worst buggers I ever had, right after the Amiga's Guru Meditation. OS X is improving things, but then it's a BSD core... (and it's unnervingly slow and inaccurate at windows' resizing...bugger! )
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