[Cialug] Larry Ellison is posturing again. Everyone watch out!

[Richard Harms]

Solaris is still very bare out of the box. Anyone used to Linux will  
not feel at home without a few additions. Here's one person's take on  
what was needed after getting a T2000 loaner from Sun:

http://savoirtech.com/roller/page/jgenender? 
entry=sun_t2000_a_look_inside

Look at the section entitled "Solaris is bare and its a long setup."

It makes a very stable server environment, but I cannot imagine using  
it for a desktop, or even development environment personally. Even OS  
X feels more at home, compared to Linux, than Solaris does.

-rh

On Apr 18, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Chris Hilton wrote:

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but:  Not only is Solaris not  
> Linux, it
> doesn't have gnu binutils either.  So it lacks all that marks Linux  
> as Linux
> and not BSD.
>
> I'm sure you could install gnu utils though.