I second that, plus that IMHO Solaris is slower (installing Solaris is like watching the grass grow) and far less flexible than LINUX, and even if you have all of the GNU packages compiling programs from free software often fails. It beats me why SuSE (and other Linuces)don't dominate the market.
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Lenz Grimmer
Hi,
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:
What are the main differences between Solaris and (let's say SuSE) Linux from a user's point of view?
Virtually none. The original goal that Linus had in mind was for Linux to be a UNIX-like environment for programmers. The difference between Solaris and Linux is about the same as Solaris vs. HPUX, Solaris vs. AIX, Solaris vs. IRIX, or any other UNIX you can think of.
Linux has two primary advantages: Low initial cost, and the fact that most Linux distributions include a full compliment of GNU tools and applications, whereas the commercial U*X may not.
Indeed. I was more than shocked to work on freshly installed Solaris or IRIX boxes. They lack almost everything I got used to on my Linux box. Commerical Unices are very spartanic.
Bye, LenZ
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