OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:41:52 -0500
> Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>and, when you look at the performance of 2.6 kernels it's pretty damn
>>good and (my opinion) scales better than pretty much everything other
>>than solaris.
> 
> IRIX scales up to at least 1024 CPUs and multiple GB RAM per CPU in a
> single OS image.
> 
> Gues from where Linux got the scalability? SGI, as they are on the way
> to replace IRIX with Linux...

AIX scales pretty well too.  Look at the System p5-595.  Takes 2TB RAM 
without doing anything funky to the box.  Also runs 64 multi-core POWER5 
chips.

Peace...  Sridhar