Impressions of WABI/Univel vs Linux
Charles Anderson
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|Posted on behalf of Craig Southeren who does not have access to
|a net account:
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| Then the sales-droid came over and tried to impress us by asking
|how we liked using a a brand new Pentium machine that they had
|borrowed from Compaq just for the show. If it takes a Pentium to
|make Windows run under Solaris at a decent speed...
I saw wabi running under Solaris 2.2 at the Solaris Dev conference, and
it was running on non pentium machines and seemed to be zipping along
pretty good. I asked the sun demoers how fast it ran on a sparc instead
of a x86 box. They said the window manipulation ran faster than the intel
but any time it was doing something like a spreadsheet recalc it was about
3x slower. Overall I was fairly impressed with the speed of Solaris on
the intel, but I am much more impressed with the price of linux, so that
is what I run.
-Charlie
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Bob Amstadt
there is an effort in progress to create something similar to Sun's WABI.
There is an activists channel, "WABI", for discussion of this project.
There is need for many volunteers to complete this project.
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Budi Rahardjo
Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.
I can crash it easily (every session it crashes at least
3 times for me). It's nice for a demo, but I wouldn't use
it for a production.
Let's get back to Linux.
-- budi
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Budi Rahardjo <Budi_R...@UManitoba.Ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Carlo James Calica
>I have a copy of WABI (demo)... and run it on a Sparc 10.
>Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.
>I can crash it easily (every session it crashes at least
>3 times for me). It's nice for a demo, but I wouldn't use
>it for a production.
>
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James Mitchell
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In article <C9n98...@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rah...@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi
Rahardjo) writes:
>I have a copy of WABI (demo)... and run it on a Sparc 10.
>Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.
>I can crash it easily (every session it crashes at least
>3 times for me). It's nice for a demo, but I wouldn't use
>it for a production.