On November 15, 2004 05:06 am, bruce wrote: > hi... > > Since sun appears to be doing an 'open source' release of solaris 10, how > compatible is that with linux/RH linux? > > I was curious as to what different perspectives are regarding what Solaris > offers .vs Linux... > > thanks > > bruce > bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Just curious, all the other posts aside, why you would want to go to Solaris. It takes a week to get it to a point of usability that a standard Linux install starts at. You have to gather all the gnu utiluitiers and install them because Solaris has very little functionality out of the box. I work on Solaris every day, and it is very stable but that comes at the cost of performance and usability. You can get it set up nicely but it takes some time. How about / being root users home dir or that swap & /tmp are the same partition so filling /tmp can crash the box. You have man pages that tell you depending on which path you use to call, say du, that you will have different command arguments! Of course, root has basicly no path set up, so your more likely to get command not found! When Solaris folks sit down at a Linux box they are often amazed by things like gpm, klipper, the virtual terminals (alt-ctl-f2/f3...), locate, stat and other things you learn to expect. Sorry about the rant:-) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
