Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Michael Salmon wrote:
Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
What are the main differences between Solaris and (let's say SuSE) Linux from a user's point of view?
From a user's point of view the differences are small, very small indeed if you install kde. Presuming that you run Solaris 7 or later you get logging ufs and, from what I've read ufs is more robust than ext2 which means that you are less likely to badly break you file system. NFS support is much better and you can cache NFS data. As I guess that you are talking about Solaris X86 there are probably more applications for Linux than Solaris but Solaris can run Linux binaries (in Solaris 8 IIRC). Probably the biggest plus, from a user's point of view, for Solaris is the volume manager.
It should be pointed out that these have little to do with the *user's* perspective. Though features like the desktop environment (KDE) and the file system (ufs, NFS) are important, they fall under the *administrator's* domain. The *user* never sees any of this. It is up to the *administrator* to make KDE available to the user, likewise ensure that the file system is up to the challenge of every day use, and network shares are appropriately linked.
When I run Linux KDE is what I see most. The file system part is also important to me as a user, I have used smbfs and hfs a couple of times, never as an administrator. /Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/