I still have my doubts when it comes to desktops (mostly because I'm too demanding), but Solaris is sounding more appealing for servers and routers.
Now the barrier for me is documentation. Sun has thousands of pages of documentation available on their website, but what I haven't found is task-oriented documentation. In the Linux and BSD world, common tasks are documented in simple guides, and if you want to deviate from the guides, the man pages or other references offer more details. Is there a Solaris equivalent that's up to date? I would like references concerning, for example, setting up NAT, configuring an IPv6 router, prioritizing NULL ACK packets, configuring an ADSL PPPoE connection, securing a router, and securing an NFS server. The whole reason I started using OpenBSD was because the documentation was detailed without being overwhelming (Sun documentation seems to fail this criterion), and available for the current version from an authoritative source (a considerable amount of Linux documentation fails this criterion). Regarding binary logging, I think it fits well with UNIX principles since the native format of the data is binary. Converting to ASCII is another layer of complexity. Binary logs allow searching with tcpdump, or the pflog pseudo interface can be monitored in real-time. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
