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

[Carl Olsen]

All I need it for is FTP, HTTP, and probably SAMBA so I can print stuff on
the printer attached to my Windows XP machine.  I probably want SSH so I can
use PuTTY.  I just use it for playing around.  It has PostgreSQL 8 on it
now, which is what I use for a database, since MySQL didn't have stored
procedures when I set it up.  I also need an email client.  I'm running
Evolution on it right now.  I would probably switch to Oracle, since they
have a free version now.  I still might want to use PostgreSQL, since I
spent a lot of time learning how to program it with stored procedures (I
might as well keep in practice).

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Richard Harms
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:26 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Larry Ellison is posturing again. Everyone watch out!

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.
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