[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

[Scott Silva]

on 3-7-2008 5:44 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
> Andreas Pedersen wrote:
>> I'm also interested into learning more about other system as well, my
>> question is what should I take a closer look in Solaris?
>> Things like why people choose Solaris over Linux.
> 
> Solaris puts a lot of effort into maintaining backwards compatibility. 
> With Linux, things as fundamental as device names change routinely and 
> you often have to have to recompile things between versions.  Centos is 
> pretty good about this within a major release, but the long support life 
> of those releases is an exception in the Linux world and you still find 
> big differences between the major release versions that don't always 
> maintain compatibility.
> 
And the Sun server hardware was very good at what it did at the time. There 
wasn't any x-86 hardware that could touch it. Besides, nothing could burn 
through an IT budget like a couple of Sparc 20's.  ;-P


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