Yes, there are differences, but as I pointed out the gap is drawing closer. Linux Support in the industry (meaning Oracle,E-commerce) is by and large supporting Linux more each week. It was that I could go into Level 3, Qwest, or Exodus and see wall to wall Ultra2's, enterprise xxx, and a handful of Intel-NT boxes. Now in the last 12 months I see 25-40% of the gear Linux-Intel Boxes, especially New Start-ups. What I am saying is that the differences while there, are indeed becoming less. And Linux is definitely the rising choice in both Collocation as is On-Site File-Print-DB-DNS-Mail-Web Services Regards, Jon Jon R. Doyle Systems Administrator Document Solutions, Inc. 1611 Telegraph Avenue Ste. 1010 Oakland, Ca. 94612 510-986-0250
Jon Pennington
02/15/00 11:47AM >>> 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. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x107 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- 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/ -- 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/