Dear gurus,

I've recently acquired a couple of near-identical E450s and my
colleague is determined to run Linux on one of them.
I hear cries of 'bad idea, Solaris will be faster'. And being
Solaris biased, I'm inclined to agree.

But why, when, for what kind of use? There's quite a bit of
conjecture here but very little in the way of fact, at least that I
can find. We have an opportunity here to do a bake-off under
reasonably controlled conditions.

The machines are both E450s, 4x400 Mhz, 2x18 Gb disk, 2048 Mb memory.
I'm expecting one to be Solaris 9 or 10 and the other to be based
on Gentoo Linux.

What kind of tests would the supporters of both camps like us to
run, bearing in mind that we don't have pots of money to spend on
software such as oracle and will be largely limited to publicly available
software or that which comes with the respective OS's?

Regards,

Pete

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