---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremy Baker <jello...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] What is best OS for GRID or clusters? To: Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca>
Sun Solaris Express Developer Edition, w/ Sun Studio compilers, Netbeans ... is a 4G DVD I obtained in the pulp Linux User & Developer (mag issue 76). For legacy hardware, it would work. Time is finite for me, I must pick a system, and presently I have plans to focus on GCC and BSD Linux, that is until a reasonable argument is made to switch, if there is a reason. Baker On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Any significant reason to use SOLARIS over a Linux distro for development >> of >> software? >> > > in the absence of any other info, it would be absurd to choose solaris. > solaris is merely yet another proprietary version of unix, used by a > vanishingly small fraction of people. generally only those with a fetish > for "commercial support". experienced users know that "support" is always > far short of the PhB dream of a warm cocoon of "everything just > works or someone else fixes it instantly". > > Does the same C/C++ file compile well on both systems? If there are >> > > it depends on the code. any code can be non-portable, but any portable > code will (by definition) compile and run on either OS. > > differences where can I find suggested reading material on the topic? >> > > well, the beowulf list isn't a good place to start. linux is the defacto > standard unix; solaris is merely something you can get from sun. there are > some bits of software which sun still provides only on solaris - the only > possible rational reason to use solaris is to get those (ZFS is really the > only one considered significant.) > -- Jeremy Baker SBN 634 337 College Hill Johnson, VT 05656 -- Jeremy Baker SBN 634 337 College Hill Johnson, VT 05656
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