UNIX admin wrote:
I'm trying to be fair to the other distributions and
trying to show that
it isn't just Sun building an OpenSolaris
distribution that is on the
leeding edge.
But that was not at the heart of the question. The question was, to paraphrase:
If I want to learn (Open)Solaris, which distribution should I take?
Which is why you shouldn't paraphrase. His questions were:
What exactly are Solaris and OpenSolaris?
What about Solaris and OpenSolaris? Is OpenSolaris too just a kernel?
What about the userland then?
In what way are these Solaris 10 DVDs related to OpenSolaris?
Now, let's assume I want to try OpenSolaris. With Linux distros, I am
used to downloading an ISO, burning it, and booting with it. What should
I download here?
I understand you want to clearly underline that there are other distributions
of Solaris. Yes, there are.
But be honest: would you recommend them in order to learn Solaris? For example,
do you believe that Sun educational services will ever use BeleniX or SchilliX
to teach Solaris? If yes, why? If no, why not?
He definitely said OpenSolaris. We should not assume that means
Solaris. We need to get away from this "OpenSolaris == Solaris" mentality.
If someone said they wanted to learn Linux, would you by default assume
she wanted to learn Red Hat?
cheers,
steve
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