Re: tlug: About Sun Microsystems in Japan

["A.Tomita,Jr." <Alberto@example.com>]

Hi Demian.

In message <34B0E6F6.16AD7771@example.com> you wrote:
> Can someone tell me where to find quick and interesting information on
> Sun Microsystems Japan?

It may be obvious, but did you check http://www.sun.co.jp ?

> arguments to propose Sun's
> promotion of Linux.

>From the SPARC Linux home page:

	Linux on the SPARC is faster than any Sun Operating System
        release because of a number of reasons:

	+ Linux is a light weight operating system
	+ A system call entry sequence that takes advantage of the architecture
	+ Linux takes advantages of the GNU compiler tricks and SPARC ABI
          specification
	+ Linux has been extensively profiled and most often used routines 
          were optimized for every single CPU tick. Especially speeding up
          the IP checksumming and memory copying speeded up a lot of things,
          especially networking latencies. 

		[...]

	By providing the same set of services and APIs across different 
	platforms, Linux will enable system integration, ease system
	administration tasks and promote the use of free software. 

	Linux/SPARC can currently run most off the shelf SunOS 4 programs 
	without modification, thus we could think about Linux as an
	"upgrade", since it is being supported and it is being actively 
	developed. It has a small and clean kernel thus making it suitable 
	to run on low end SPARC machines. 

---
Alberto Tomita, Jr.            http://www.ishiilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~Alberto    
Yokohama National University       e-mail: alberto@example.com



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