Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)

[Alan DuBoff]

George Bonser wrote:

> Actually, if you run GNU make, it should not matter which OS you use.

Sure don't. I use Sun's make, ld, as, etc...on Solaris x86, even with egcs.
The reccomended usage to to put /usr/ccs/bin in your path before any of the
GNU paths, to make sure you use Sun's. I have heard of people using the GNU
bintools on Solaris, but I've never seen it reccomended by Sun engineers.

> It has been a while since I used their devel toolkit and I never used it on SMP
> machines.

SMP is Sun's main advantage, even on Intel hardware. Lucky for Linux that
Sun's marketing geeks stand around with their d!@$s in their ear, because on
upper end Intel hardware it has an advantage. It will all be moot, as Linux is
improving on the SMP, so the gap is narrowing and Linux has the market
attention. Linux is fun to work on, I enjoy it.

> Yeah, that is a problem. People see these postings on Freshmeat and think it is
> ready to use ...

He wasn't saying it was ready to use, just that there was a feature freeze,
which implies that things are starting to stablize and it's in the home
stretch.

> There is the lmsensors stuff, you might have a look into it.

I'll check it out.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.