Hi.
Personally i like both UNIX's.
The better things in Solaris is that at the end you have a BIG company
behind it.
The best thing about linux that it comes (usually) with lots of packages
that a commertial distribution might won't come with them.
More then that , it is one thing to have the OS, what about all the
compilers and so ?
Will Sun make them free also ?
I think that you should not start to ask "who is better" , just ask how to
use both :-)
Each OS has it's advantages.
and BTW, Solaris can run also on X86 Hardware.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moshe Zadka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ira Abramov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "ILUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Solaris vs Linux
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> > > 1. Because Linux runs on Alpha
> > > 2. Linux is fast becoming the most popular UNIX
> > > 3. Therefore making it easier to find answers to queries
> > 4. because Solaris is free-as-in-free-beer and not free-speach
>
> No it isn't. It costs money to have more users logged on, for example.
>
> > 5. because of the community (but I'm biased)
> > 6. because of the basic configuration (anyone can screw with his machine
> > until it's GNU/Solaris, but installing Linux is easier)
>
> Well, in solaris's favour, you do get XEmacs with the OS.
>
> 10. GNU/Linux's sed/grep/awk variety don't have any idiotic 4096 chars per
> line limit.
> 11. GNU/Linux comes with much better GUI: GNOME is light years ahead of
> CDE.
> 12. Most Free Software is available first on Linux (e.g., GNU's machines
> are GNU/Linux boxen), and is best debugged on Linux.
>
> Note:
> Richard Stallman has requested time and again to refer to the OS as
> GNU/Linux. While the kernel is Linux, most basic utilities are part of
> FSF's GNU project for providing a free operating system. If you care at
> all about the opinion of the guy who wrote some of the most basic tools
> you are using (gcc, gdb, Emacs) and founded the organization (FSF) which
> funded much of the rest (parts of GNOME, file-utils, text-utils and so
> on), please refer to the OS as GNU/Linux.
>
> --
> Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
>
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