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To: E_K_S who wrote (17982)7/20/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Hi Eric- I know you and I installed x86 Solaris around the same time, and have had a similar experience. My biggest complaint is the lack of freeware relative to Linux (I'm not competent enough to port/recompile the Linux source for Solaris x86). I've become a Linux user for that reason, and for the fact that x86 Solaris is just overkill on a single processor machine. I do like having CDE and Motif (which are expensive for Linux). I hope to run both as Solaris 8 becomes available and works nicely with Linux.

If you find yourself agreeing with James though, something is fundamentally wrong <g>. Solaris is not meant to be an 'end user' product (which is James' precept). You and I obtained it free under a program aimed at developers. I'm sure Sun would in fact agree that Linux would probably be a better solution for you.

The thing with Solaris is that it's industrial and Solaris admins get paid the big bucks. Unix has an entirely different design philosophy, and in that 'click through integrated kernel NT configuration', you make a Faustian bargain at the expense of configurability, reliability, scalability, and openness, to name a few.

You use Samba and understand the heterogeneous nature of the modern network. Sun has done an end around M$ with the help of AT&T by now making it so that NT admins can use their familiar Windows GUI with Solaris (see Project Cascade) in the network environment.

And 'network environment' is our context.

-JCJ




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