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David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:
| Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:
|
| > Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:
| >
| > > (Yes, I'm using win95 at the moment, though I finally convinced
| > > Solaris to install on my home machine.)
| >
| > Solaris is a great OS for x86 machine... I use it at home too.
|
| Sorry for this off-topic message, but does anyone have experience of
| Solaris x86 on a dual+ CPU machine?

I'm using 5.5.1 on a dual Ppro/200 HP Vectra.  Pretty nice, but be
sure to get/install the recommended patches.  I'd rather be using
Linux, of course, but some quick and dirty benchmarks (building the
code I work on both on this box and on a colleague's box running
Linux with glibc1) show no appreciable performance improvement
in switching.