> I could download Nexenta, which I believe uses > Debian's apt (something that I absolutely love) and > GNU tools. Does it mean I will miss out on anything > that is Solaris-specific?
Of course you will. Nexenta is Ubuntu with an OpenSolaris kernel core and OpenSolaris userland mixed with GNU that Ubuntu comes with. If you really, honestly want to learn Solaris proper, then you should stick with (Open)Solaris. If you plan to run Solaris in production, Nexenta is most likely not what you want, nor will it ever be, unless you are keen on babysitting your servers. There is a tremendous amount of (re)engineering work that goes into Nexenta to graft Ubuntu on top of an OpenSolaris core, and this is why Nexenta will always lame behind (Open)Solaris proper. > One curiosity though. What I received from Sun was > this: Sun Solaris 6/06. What's this? Was this a > Solaris release before it was open sourced? Yes. And it is free, as in gratis. This is what you would run in production, on thousands of servers. > So I can get started with either of the three, > correct? If you are really interested in learning the real, non-GNU Solaris, then you should start with Solaris 10 6/06, or Solaris 10 12/06 (the "update 3") when it becomes available. If your intent is to learn real Solaris AND understand or work on OpenSolaris, then you should install Solaris Express, then recompile OpenSolaris on top of it. (Solaris Express is the preview of the future Solaris 11 and also one of the distros of OpenSolaris, in this case from Sun themselves.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
