Hello Peter. I'm sorry that your experience with Opensolaris came short but, It does seem that you are also being a bit unfair.
First of all, it's very difficult to have a good score in anticipating people's needs and putting their information of choice right in their path. If you doubt me just try to find any good redhat linux documentation following the 3 click rule and starting in http://www.redhat.com Secondly, you too made the exact same thing, I can tell from your email that your problem wasn't in the installation but, what exactly were your problems? In what do you need help with? The commands Solaris uses were not "conjured up by some Debian genius" for the single reason that Solaris predates Debian by a looong time :) Remember that Solaris may be a new player in the Opensource scene (everybody, let's leave this one slide please) but, it has a lot of milleage under it's belt. Finally, (a Debian like answer, just for fun): Solaris for DOS users: - help is man - cd is cd - dir is ls - the commands are in /usr/bin and in /usr/sbin Have fun and I hope your next experiences with Solaris are better -- JaimeC peter joseph wrote: > Upon hearing all the noise Sun Micro has been making regarding OpenSolaris I > decided to give it a try. SM promptly sent me a CD, free of charge, which I > immediately installed on my laptop. Installation was as smooth as baby's > but. Even though I have been using Fedora for a number of years, when it > came to Solaris system command structure I was totally lost. Searching the > system and the CD was of no help. Sun website, as usual, full of > we-are-the-best stuff while short on useful info proved to be just that -- no > useful info pertaining to commands. > I could have been looking in wrong places, but any Linux website you go to > will readily direct you to a ton of links dealing with this subject. > Opensolaris seems to be a great os, but I have to ask; Who is behind this > disjointed presentation of it? Why is it that everything that comes out of > Sun Microsystems is so screwed up? Is it beyond their capability to put > together a simple command list? If so, use the common Unix-based commands > rather than some exotic commands conjured up by some Debian genius. > It's too bad. I do admit, it has a potential, nevertheless, not being able > to work with it I had to dump it. > Hopefully, Oracle will clean the house... >
