comparison to solaris9

[Lucas Holt]

> First, I am not an expert.  Second, I have little Solaris experience.  
> I
> have,however, run FreeBSD 5.2.1 and solaris9 x86 on the same hardware.
> I had never seen the nickname 'Slowlaris' before that, but I came to
> appreciate it ;)

Solaris advocates used to say that it was slow on uniprocessor systems. 
  I think freebsd 5.2.1 through that out the window.  (because of SMP 
kernels)

I haven't used solaris 9 x86, but i have seen *bsd vs solaris 7 and 8 
on x86 hardware.  Solaris is a tad bit slow.  In fact, its not just 
ia32 hardware.  I had an old sparc that came with solaris and i put 
NetBSD on it.  NetBSD was easily twice as fast.  (not sparc64)  It was 
a sun sparcstation IPC.  (25mhz)  The only advantage to using solaris 
is you don't have to go through all the hoops to get a native jdk.  :)

Lucas Holt
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