On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:39:04PM -0300, Helcio Wagner Da Silva wrote:
>
> Hi to everybody. I have two litle questions about the Solaris and
> Linux's OSs. The questions are:
>
> 1. What the advantages of Linux about Solaris?
It runs on signifcantly more hardware. The "Solaris Operating
Environment" has dropped support in (at least) version 7 and 8
for all of the older Sparc machines (Sparcstation 1's IPX's, and
I believe some others). Linux runs on these just fine.
I prefer the Debian software packaging systems to any other that
I have ever met.
I believe you'll generally have an eaiser time getting open-source
software to compile cleanly and easily on Linux. I don't have very
much experience with Solaris, but I've repeatedly found it eaiser
to compile apps on Linux than on (HPUX|IRIX|DEC Unix).
Any decent Linux distribution comes with compilers. A default
Solaris 7 doesn't.
linux-newbie can help you if you have problems :-)
Linux includes GNU tools. I always find the GNU versions of standard
un*x utilities (sed, awk, cat, ifconfig, grep, safe .....) to be
preferable to vendor distributed version.
Linux includes a shell that has tab completion. Solaris only
comes with csh and sh (unless I've missed something).
Linux has better support for network cards out of the box.(In my
experience).
You don't get stuck with CDE (Common Desktop Environment) as your
X environment.
You can get Linux for $0 - $80ish (I've not seen it cost more).
Sun claims to release Solaris for "free", but I *cannot* download
it, and the only way Sun offers it is to pay ~$80 for Shipping and
Handiling for a media kit. grrr...
> 2. What the advantages of Solaris about Linux?
Solaris does threading better. It also scales to large
multi-processor systems better.
I'll bet it runs better on new sparc hardware as well.
If you buy it, Sun will support you.
Some software vendors release for Solaris before other OS's.
I've had better experience with X under solaris. I didn't have
to play games with xf86config. The X that came with Solaris 7 worked
out of the box on Cards that XFree86 doesn't yet support.
It has an eaiser install if you don't know your hardware.
Java seems to work better (suprise suprise).
You can get Internet Explorer :-)
I've read that Suns NFSv3 actually works.
I'm sure there are others, but they aren't springing to mind.
> Someone would help me? Thanks in advance.
>
hope this did.
greg
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