One barrier when adopting a new operating system is the lack of familiarity with the local customs and traditions. With one's old operating system one accomplished a given task a certain way, but on foreign soil that knowledge has to be enhanced or at least augmented with the corresponding OpenSolaris methology. I'm hoping to create a community of users familiar with Linux who are interested in or have adopted OpenSolaris. My hope is that this community will be make the transition easier for themselves and others by answering the common questions (e.g. "ln -s truss strace"), _and_ will be a resource for people working on OpenSolaris to understand -- and address -- the comparative advantages and disavantages.
Perhaps this should be a broader "Immigrant" (or "Refugee"?) community with sub-communities for the operating systems of origin (Linux, *BSD, Windows, BeOS, Amiga, etc.). I personally will find this tremendously useful as an OpenSolaris developer as I'm often curious about how other operating systems work, but don't have enough experience with them to feel that I can evaluate them fairly. Thanks. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
