On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:09:07AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody ,Hello everybody , > > I wanted to share with all of you my desperation to get a hang of > Solaris . > > All of you , being votaries of the Open Source Movement , could > perhaps guide me as to how I can have Solaris on my box [I am speaking > of both office and home , architectures being vastly different] .
As a free software advocate, I'd say don't. Solaris is neither free software nor open source. Perhaps you have to for some reason, though; of the proprietary Unices it's probably the one with the fewest problems. > I am broke , and can't pay Sun micro any money that they might ask . Solaris 8 is free in terms of cost. See <URL:http://www.sun.com/solaris/binaries/>. > I gather that Solaris is a member of the Unix family , a cousin of > Linux . > > Could somebody in the know of things , please tell me from where I can > gather information on : > > 1. What really is Solaris ? > > 2. Is it really a member of the Unix family ? Solaris is the successor to SunOS, which is a BSD-derived Unix that predates Linux by almost a decade. See <URL:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/>. > 4. How different is it from other members of the Unix family . As much as any of the others. A lot of people tend to install the GNU tools on it in order to make normal user-level work bearable. Anything else is really beyond the scope of this list. I don't know of a better mailing list, but you might try the comp.unix.solaris newsgroup. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
