> If I had invested all that time into Unix I would > have become an expert now.
Well, certainly can't argue with that logic. That's exactly why I refused to *waste my time* with all the other OSes out there. I did two "rounds" of Linux sysadmin, and then Linux system engineering, but coming from System V UNIX, the chaos and hacking I found there by others found me back on UNIX (although I still do Linux when necessary, there's no joy in it). > Solaris is not flawless, > but in my opinion it is the best Unix out there. There is a better, IRIX, but since it's been discountinued, and it will be run over by Solaris any day now feature-for-feature (except software management, but that's a long story). > I intend to devote all my time to Solaris from now on. > No more switching OS. Well, if you grasp System V concepts from using / adminning Solaris really well, you won't have to "switch" OSes: for example, you'll almost instantaneously "just know" HP-UX, and IRIX too. That's the break one gets for learning a System V UNIX. > In my opionion, Blastwave and the likes, should be > high on Sun's priority list. It seems that to compile > a program under Solaris takes years of experience. "Practice makes perfect, and perfect takes practice." Anyway, the problem (until recently) was exacerbated by the fact that most software was developed on Linux by people with not enough experience and insufficient grasp of UNIX, so most of it would be either "braindead" or just simply broken when attempting to compile on any real UNIX. Take a piece of software from an old-skool UNIX guy like Joerg Schilling or the guys from ISC, and see it compile effortlessly and flawlessly on traditional UNIXes. That's the difference, and it's huge. By the time you become proficient in compiling, if the current trend continues, most of the software will be either fixed or developed directly on Solaris, so you won't have to go through the pain, torture & frustrations that the rest of us went through when cutting our teeth on that junk. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
