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forrest
11-15-2000, 10:15 PM
i've used linux a fair amount, i can manage at a command line no problem. what are some of the differeneces with solaris? (i have a Sparc Classic coming in the mail), and i'm interested to give another *nix a try. so, i'm just wondering, if any of the commands are different, or do people have a harder time finding software for it?

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dieselboy
11-15-2000, 10:21 PM
well.. biggest differences that you will notice? That is probably going to be the configuration of the file system.. dont get me wrong.. /etc is still /etc and /usr is still /usr but things are certainly different.. many third party software applications are installed into /opt (solaris 7 and later) also alot of the /etc files are different... there is a major difference in running window managers.. on linux i figured out how to change window managers in under an hour... years ago.. on Solaris, It took me almost an entire day to get KDE to work like I knew it could... you will not want to run anything later then 2.6 on that sparc classic.. it is gonna be a dog..

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diesel
forrest
11-15-2000, 10:50 PM
yeah, i know it's gonna be slow, tis ok, i got it for shipping costs only, and it's gonna be kinda fun to play with.

and hey, on the upside, my wm of choice is blackbox. i can't stand any of the others... so it will at least run on it without instant death...
bytemare
11-16-2000, 11:38 AM
You'll notice that solaris (as most UNIX) doesn't come with all of the nice packages like linux distros do, so you'll probably be downloading a lot of stuff for a while.
rppp01
11-22-2000, 11:35 PM
Solaris is meant to run on nice big servers, so you can expect to have that baby run reeeeeaaally slow. I had to actually set up a 400mb partition with my Ultra 5- with 64mb of RAM. And it regularily ate up a major chunck of that swap space.

The networking command line tools are similiar, and you can get many of the same basic tools that linux has- mc, lynx, top, samba, less, emacs, bash, just to name a very few.

Enjoy- Solaris is not a bad experience. It will be slow for you, though you can speed it up by not running X and sendmail, and that ****. Oh yeah, and put more ram in that thing