Intrigued by my recent benchmarking exercise I decided to take a look at the various operating systems’ performance on a common virtualisation platform. Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2010
JumpStart, sysidcfg, and the mystery of enabling network/nis/client
Posted by Mark
on February 11, 2010
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Came across an intriguing problem today. Whilst trying to develop a generic Solaris PXE boot solution for x86 Solaris installs I was having a problem with enabling NIS post install. Read more »
Benchmarking Linux, Solaris and Windows on HP hardware
Posted by Mark
on February 1, 2010
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A short while ago I got the opportunity to compare the performance of a number of operating systems on the same piece of hardware.
The server in question was a HP DL580G5, but with four 6-core Intel Dunnington CPUs in, each running at 2.66ghz. Read more »
Choosing an Operating System
Posted by Mark
on February 1, 2010
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