I think we risk confusing the strength of the admin with a strength of
the platform. Latin scholars make great linguists, after all.
Patrick
Andre van Eyssen 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.
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