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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!holly.cc.uleth.ca!news From: Marc Roussel <roussel@henri.chem.uleth.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:25:41 -0600 Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Lethbridge Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32357A65.41C6@henri.chem.uleth.ca> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: henri.chem.uleth.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27004 comp.unix.solaris:82088 comp.os.linux.misc:128189 Atif Ahmad Khan wrote: > As for robustness, we have been able to crash Solaris > on several occasions running "user-level" programs. Linux on the > other hand is much harder to crash. As an example if you have a > computer with Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B card, running Netscape > under Solaris as an avg. user will kill your system's networking. Wasn't there a post about these cards just a few days ago? You might want to look it up with Deja News. Besides, if you buy Intel-based hardware, you get what you deserve :-). Marc R. Roussel (roussel@henri.chem.uleth.ca) Department of Chemistry University of Lethbridge