--- Andre van Eyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Patrick Finch wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, you are saying that a > Solaris user can become a > > Linux user with ease, but not vice versa. Do you > consider this to be a > > strength or a weakness of Linux? > > Neither. It's a strength of Solaris, in that Solaris > breeds a mindset that > is portable to HPUX, *BSD, Linux and many other > platforms. You learn to > work with a set of tools that are present on > everything, as opposed to > being dependant on particular features of a > particular toolchain. > > A new Linux user would probably learn to use the > more modern "ip" tool to > manage interfaces, whereas as a Solaris admin would > use ifconfig which > will work on all of the above.
HA! No new Linux user is going to touch the iproute2 ip command. They will use ifconfig and when they come to Solaris they will first mutter about the incompatible flags and either hit some user group (LPI guys) or hit the man page. The ip command is for advanced linux networking and no new linux user is going to use it until they have a really good handle on why they want to create multiple routing tables and what they want to do with those routing tables. New linux user using ip. ROTFL. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
