OT: Free exams for Solaris 10

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Lonni 
> J Friedman
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:27 PM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: RE: OT: Free exams for Solaris 10
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> > > [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Lonni J 
> > > Friedman
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:39 AM
> > > To: Linux tips and tricks
> > > Subject: Re: OT: Free exams for Solaris 10
> > >
> > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you want to take a chance for Sun certifications for
> > > free, here it is :
> > > > http://www.sun.com/training/certification/solaris/beta.html
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, previous beta exams took about 3:30 hours, this time it 
> > > > takes
> > > > 4:15 hours. Wow !
> > >
> > > So just like slowlaris, it keeps getting slower & longer 
> to finish.  
> > > ;)
> > >
> >
> > With all the low prices of hardware, especially on x86 paltform, 
> > Solaris is not slow any more :-) I still have one Ultra 
> 5-270Mhz,20g 
> > hdd,1Gb RAM  and it is really slow with Solaris 10.
> 
> Not slow compared to previos versions of solaris, or not slow 
> compared to linux running on the same hardware?
> 

I compare with Solaris itself on more powerful hardware platforms. No, I do
not want to go to the discussion which OS is better . My point here is if
Solaris ( or any OS ) is required and customers want it run faster, then the
current low price of hardware makes it more acceptable.

Vu