Is Solaris on Intel really "Slowaris"--slower than other Intel-based operating systems?
By default, the other free OS's aren't SMP very capable out of the box--Solarisis. So, one single CPU system, Solaris has a fair amount on un-necessary
overhead--which slows it down a bit.
Because the other OSes don't have this capability, or at least don't use it to
full advantage, they have a bit of a
performance advantage on a single CPU machine.
This advantage disappears when you start adding processors.
So, I think Slowaris is a little bit too far, but it is at a bit of a
performance disadvantage.
But on an 800Mhz processor, who cares?! Odds are you'll just be idling
very quickly!
[Thanks to Rich Teer]
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