Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance (now Solaris)

>> > Only under Solaris. With Linux or BSD on it it ran pretty well. I
>> > had a Sparc 20 running RH 7.2 back in the day (or whatever the last
>> > version of RH that ran on sparc was) that spanked an Ultra-2 running
>> > slowalrus with twice the memory and hard drives handily.
>> >
>> > Solaris has gotten much better since then, I'm sure.
>
> Ubuntu is supposed to be able to spin on a T1000/T2000 and they have
> come out with a magical beast called Solaris 10 and in Sun's infinite
> wisdom they have decided to abandon the /etc/init.d/ and friends way of
> startup for some complex XML way of doing things. But otherwise its
> quite good (ZFS and Cool Thread servers being among the other good
> things out of Sun's shop).

Anybody here running postgresql on a T1000? What OS, and how is it?

Cheers,
Jeremy