On Friday 07 October 2005 07:48 pm, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > <snip> > > I will try to find time to re-install Solaris Express 23. Now, come to > think about it, I believe what happened was that, when se23 did not > recognize either of the NICs on my machine, it decided to bypass the > network config step (in that I was not prompted to enter network data). If > it was not done by the installation script, I have no idea how to set up > tcpip on a Solaris system. (When are you going to update your Solaris > Installation Guide to cover Ver. 10? It would have been a great help.)
Wayne, Are you talking about the install guide that is on Big Admin? I do have plans to update an install guide, but it will be on OpenSolaris in the future, not Big Admin. Due to politics internal to Sun, I will not provide anymore guides or white papers to BigAdmin, and will focus all of my efforts to OpenSolaris. > The fact that Solaris is different from Linux, and that it requires a > steeper learning curve, may actually be advertised as an advantage. (Read: > an "elite" OS) "Easy" may not play well with business users. OTOH a > "default" Linux installation (especially on notebooks) is inherently > insecure. It's just that no one bothers to talk about it. (Of course this > problem can be easily fixed, but the key word is the "default" > installation.) This message posted from opensolaris.org I'm not so sure that I would say Solaris requires a steeper learning curve than Linux, both require quite a learning curve. I don't find Solaris any more difficult, and in some ways it's easier for me. And yes, I have worked on both Linux and Embedded Linux in the past, so I'm very familiar with them, as well as *BSD. However, I wouldn't place either of them as an end all solution for all cases, and I'm a believer in using the right tool for the job. There are some things I wouldn't use Solaris for, such as an embedded device with minimal memory and storage. Similarly, I wouldn't use Linux in a 4-way server where heavy loads are a requirement. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
