Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750716AbWEDS7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 14:59:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750803AbWEDS7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 14:59:32 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.230]:20087 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbWEDS7b convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 14:59:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LNKR6DbdleyrSM8zpxRpf/J26BFZHLUzL9FbtEk1KZnfHid6MSVXvs8kjKzJUon17QfQzMSLd06u/5Tck/JAdb6eKFyCW5KUxws4mnMUMD1i/Q1SOJgaoKPPALvHbhSuKs9Fd+3xIVRJ42a8ccve0aasTEFxNMFQONSDlP9dNzE= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:59:29 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: www.softpanorama.org: sparc_vs_x86 fun In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <200605041224.41827.vda@ilport.com.ua> <4459DDCC.2020407@huawei.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1169 Lines: 35 On 5/4/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker wrote: > jimmy 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/