sun solaris .vs linux

[Pete Nesbitt]

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 at earthlink.net


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