performance disadvantage. But on an 2GHz processor, who cares?!
are you’ll just be idling very quickly! Update: a benchmark test by Tony Bourke ran Solaris x86 9 against Linux 2.4 (RedHat 9). He concluded Solaris x86 and Linux performed the same, except with web operations, where Linux was about twice as fast. Both systems had the latest updates. See http://www.osnews.com/story.php?