A Sun engineer on Linux

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 23, 2004 23:49 UTC (Thu) by cajal (guest, #4167)
In reply to: A Sun engineer on Linux by bronson
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

Well, a lot has changed on Solaris since 2000.

Most of the shell utilities now accept the "-h" argument. There's Blastwave for automated
package installation and upgrades. There's Solaris Patch Manager for automated OS patching.
Sun now ships GNOME by default with Solaris (and you can get KDE from Blastwave if you want
it). And I have to say, the current Solaris Express builds are *a lot* snappier than Solaris 8 on the
same hardware.

I tried Solaris (briefly) back in the 2.7 and 2.8 days, and then went with Linux. But I'm seriously
looking at Solaris 10 - a lot has changed, and I like a lot of what I've seen.

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