30 May
2013
30 May
'13
12:32 p.m.
On 05/30/2013 01:07 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
s/GNU//
Despite Stallman's efforts to coattail-surf, Linux is not a GNU thing.
Yes, modern *desktop* Linux is pretty fat. It's mostly in the
desktop GUI stuff. "Server" Linux (i.e., no GUI desktop environment) is
pretty lean.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 05/30/2013 01:00 AM, Mouse wrote:
Yep. At least in a very non-scientific comparison. A
SPARCstation-IPX running NetBSD feels a lot more responsive than a
Raspberry Pi running Linux. I've run both, but not side-by-side.
Software "weight" probably has a lot to do with it.
Agreed. GNU/Linux likes to be a bit...big. > Part
of the problem I'm looking at is that you can get something
> like a Raspberry Pi that will cost a fraction of what a Sun system
> costs to run.
The Raspberry Pi, while awesome for many reasons, is a fairly wimpy
machine when you come right down to it, CPU-wise.
Compared to a SPARCstation of the SS2, IPX, etc era?