Hai, On Sunday 21 October 2001 09:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody ,Hello everybody , > > I wanted to share with all of you my desperation to get a hang of > Solaris . > > All of you , being votaries of the Open Source Movement , could perhaps > guide me as to how I can have Solaris on my box (I am speaking of both > office and home , architectures being vastly different) . > > I am broke , and can't pay Sun micro any money that they might ask . > > Please guide me on this . > > > > I gather that Solaris is a member of the Unix family , a cousin of Linux > . > > Could somebody in the know of things , please tell me from where I can > gather information on : > > 1. What really is Solaris ?
Solaris is System V compliant UNIX released by Sun Micsrosystems. > > 2. Is it really a member of the Unix family ? Yes , very much so. > > 3. How do you work on it ? (Like in Unix , SCO , Linux etc ?) Experience on Linux will help you go a long way on Solaris,but you may not find it as user friendly as Linux and the number of softwares available for Solaris for the purpose of geeking around is much less when compared to Linux. But the good thing is that Sun is now releasing all their netscape suite of products for free download so you can download and try them. > > 4. How different is it from other members of the Unix family . Hmmm,i.e. a difficult question for me to answer 'cause I have not worked on anything except Linux and Solaris .There are some major differences primarily because the SPARC version of Solaris has many advanced features such as Open PROM command sets etc.. Solaris is rock steady on SPARC mainly because it SUn's own properietary hardware > > 5. How and from where can I get Solaris such that I get all that can be > summed up as 'Solaris' , and that too , free (!) of cost. Solaris and almost all of Sun's software sare available for download including Solaris for Intel (800 MB in size !!!!!). But I think you can get a Solaris for Intel CD . > > 6. Can I stage manage a Solaris partition , by working through the > Linux [I of course mean : a) Setting up a proper partition for Solaris b) > copying him there c)Telling lilo to look there and also provide ability to > boot Solaris , side by side with Lin and Win There is a HOWTO called Solaris+Linux+Windows 2000 HOWTO.Search for it. > > > > > I shall be 'immensely' grateful for all help and guidance anybody might be > able to render. .Any time glad to be of help mate... :-) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
