[ale] Unix Vs Linux

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:03:40PM -0500, phrostie wrote:
> This is a loaded statement.
> on what hardware?
> what applications?
> what loads?

> yes, AIX on an RS6000 Rocks( by day i'm a Catia driver).
> but it is not always cost effective.

	Hmmm...  Funny...  My experience has been just the opposite.
Our old coal-fired, hand-cranked, RS/6000 running AIX 3.x was the
bottom of the heap performance wise, but I expected it to be.  It was
an old OS on an out of date platform.  Unfortunately, AIX 4.x running
on a new RS/6000 with horsepower comparable to (or superior to) our x86
boxes running Linux or Solaris x86 still did not out perform them when
building product (intensive compiling and linking).  It was one hell
of a lot BETTER than it's previous brethren, it just was not superior
to the other systems, in that environment and with that task.

> it depends on what you are trying to do.
> for my purposes(at home), cad, 3D, raytracing, linux is all i will ever need.

	Now this is VERY true.  It probably depends more heavily on what
you are trying to do than it does on what iron you are running it on
(within reason, of course).

> On Sunday 10 February 2002 16:00, you wrote:
> > i have an old high school friend whos father is
> > supposedly a computer genious, this i dont doubt and
> > the kid is very smart with computers however he said
> > something i would like to not believe but i want the
> > facts rather than a "religion" to my os ;)
> >
> > fact/question is he said Unix out performs linux. i
> > find this hard to believe considering the number of
> > people that work on linux. whats the facts? opinions
> > or thoughts?
> >
> >
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> Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS,
> and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings.
> http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/
> http://www.freelists.org/list/cad-linux
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