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.
And the awful stereotypes come alive! This sounds like
a bad B-movie (is there any other kind :-) with a plot
that combines the following cliche's
o It was hard for me to learn, therefore it should
be hard for everyone else to use,
o The only tool I have is a hammer, therefore all
my problems must be nails, and
o Job security through obscurity
If the more modern "ip" tool makes me more productive in solving
my business critical problems, what value is there in being
retro-macho and restricting myself to less efficient tools?
Instead of "least common denominator" sysadmin, maybe it would
be more productive to invest in improving the baseline. And
isn't that what this discussion is really about?
-John
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