Nick Brenn wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I recently won the Toshiba Tecra M10 laptop loaded with opensolaris.
> Unfortunately, I have never used an OS other than Windows. I am a student,
> and nothing close to a developer or a programmer. Though, I am taking an
> intro to java course for my senior year of high school.
>
> I have been trying to play around with this computer, but it seems like there
> is so much out of my league.
>
> I tried to download eclipse in the Package Manager, but I got an error. I
> clicked Install/Update and it said there was a "Plan Creation Error." I
> tried downloading Eclipse from the internet, but it did not work. This is
> one thing I am confused about.
>
> Also, other than this, is there a website that gives good beginning tutorials
> on opensolaris? I am confused about where to start, and what all this
> Package Manager thing is. Like, what is this SUNWgnome thing?
>
> I know it is sort of annoying for you guys, but I am pretty new to this and
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
Hi and welcome to the OpenSolaris user community :-)
Since your message has already been answered I won't respond to your
questions, however some newbee advice is always good!!
First up congrats on winning a laptop - I just forked out nearly ?1k for
mine and would've been nice to get it free :-P
Now yes Solaris in all incarnations is very different from MS Win, since
your in high school I don't know how knowledgeable you are about UNIX,
but Solaris remains one of the true UNIX's.
Quick history lesson: UNIX was developed back in the late 1970's by AT&T
owned Bell Labs as a development and research platform. It evolved into
many different OS's including BSD, Solaris, IRIX, MINIX, AIX, HP-UX,
Linux and others.
The first thing you have already realized is that it is *NOT* Windows
and behaves very differently. The learning curve is steep and one must
really get good at Google'ing!
If you have any best friends now or think that they are your best
friends; ditch em.... you don't need em as Google will be all you need
:-P {oh yes welcome to the world of bad humor, social disorders, and no
dress sense :-P} (....just kidding!!!)
Anyway, if you need anything first Google up and you with a good search
string criteria you should be able to find the right material in under 5
minutes (good for specific things as someone here may not be able to
help you immediately with that as it depends on who's around at the
time). If you really can't find what you're looking for then post and
definitely someone will try to help you :-)
I think that you're starting all of this at a good age, unfortunately
when I was back at high school we still had Windows NT 4 as backend
server with Win 95/98 being on workstations - and as result we were all
getting taught Turbo Pascal (see Borland community museum). This was
round 2000 in fact lol.
I didn't actually know about UNIX till I got to university much later
and then only touched the surface of Solaris and Linux which where on
the network.
Good luck and really enjoy, things like stability, no viruses/spyware,
and totally FREE. Oh yeah and you must get good at CLI as a lot of
maintenance and management is done via console or command line
interface. (as said before Google and we are here to help!!)
Regards,
Kaya
(P.s. this will come on forum no need to email be back directly ;-) is
good place for others in your shoes to see *all* corresponding replies
also!)
