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Xref: sserve comp.unix.aix:48255 comp.unix.bsd:15432 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7586 comp.unix.solaris:27599 comp.unix.unixware:14588 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!curie!jun From: jun@curie.bcm.tmc.edu (Jun Wu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware Subject: Re: Unix for PC Date: 3 Dec 1994 05:34:41 GMT Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 28 Sender: jun@curie (Jun Wu) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3bp01h$ie8@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> References: <199411210319.TAA18133@nic.cerf.net> <CHRISB.94Nov30100302@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <3bikh6$hk8@bantu.Provo.Novell.COM> <D03L47.FxJ@ct.covia.com> <1994Dec01.141120.14949@taylor.infi.net> Reply-To: jun@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: curie.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark Davis) writes: >>|> >I have narrowed down to: >>|> > SCO Unix >>|> > Sun Solaris >>|> > IBM AIX >>|> > Novell Unixware >>|> >>|> If you must pick one of these, I'd say Solaris is the most stable. >>|> >> >>You can't be serious! Solaris is buggy and **SLOW**. >What version have YOU ever used? We find 2.3 to be quite functional. >2.4 is supposedely even better. Yes it does, except that Sun still can not fix our rpc.nisd dump core problem as of this writing. They sort of did, at the price of hanging up two of our productional NIS+ slave servers. Man if you ever played with NIS+ under a 4000 user setup, you would know why Solaris is called Slowwaris. :-) Keep in mind all our servers are SparcServer 1000s. Unfortunately they only run Solaris 2.x. 2.4 is faster on the Sun (we discovered), but slowwer on Intel platform (as compared to 2.3). Jun