Linux vs Solaris

Teddy Mills teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 8 17:29:54 UTC 2007


I am definitely no expert, but what little I have used Solaris, it is 
some neat features, but lacking
some major essentials!

Torvalds is not impressed with the state of Solaris X86, dismissing it 
as a 'joke'  (his words)



Jeff Liu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am learning Solaris10 X86 now and find some difference between Linux
> and Solaris, however I don't know what's the major difference. So far
> what I found include,
>
> 1. Looks like compiling source code on Solaris is not an easy job.
> 2. Some command syntax are different on Solaris.
> 3. run level scripts /etc/rc.d/rc.x has been migrated to svc on Solaris.
> 4. The way to setup network interfaces is different on Solaris.
>
> Anything more? Did I miss some major difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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