Quoting <Pine.WNT.4.21.0003061639510.232-100000 at 8938cs820195.ied.cpqcorp.net>
by Paul Jakma <paul.jakma at compaq.com>:
> of course not. but forget the marketing, and look at the real world.
> Linux creams solaris on x86, it beats it on (u)SPARC too.
> (caveat: in all cases above definitely for 1way cpu. Maybe for 2way
> SMP. 4way+ and i wouldn't even try to claim linux was faster)
That basically comes to "Don't buy a Sun to use as your uniprocessor
desktop machine.
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