[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Linux?

[Tim Cramer]

Amit,
   Could you send your wish list (or even what you have off the top of 
your head besides lsusb) to the alias?

Tim

Amit k. Saha wrote:
> Hi Margaret,
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Kristian Rink <kawazu at zimmer428.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Margaret;
>>
>> Margaret McNulty schrieb:
>>     
>>> as well as to outline the differences between the two. Has anyone here
>>> gone through the migration process who would like to share their
>>> experiences?
>>>       
>> Well, partly. Some experiences of mine you might read in [1] and the
>> articles following it. To add to this:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Besides the major differences like ZFS and Zones, I am
>>> curious about the minor everyday differences. Because they both operate
>>> in the Gnome environment, the everyday user might expect
>>>       
>> What are "everyday users" in your environment supposed to do? Are they,
>> like, office users working with a very specifically outlined and
>> pre-installed set of software? Are they supposed to do multimedia stuff? Are
>> they mainly software developers?
>>
>> To cut things a little shorter:
>>
>> - If being a "simple" desktop user, OpenSolaris in my opinion doesn't really
>> differ to an up-to-date Linux (or FreeBSD or NetBSD or whatever)
>> distribution coming with the GNOME desktop environment of the same version.
>> On the desktop level, end user stuff mainly is GNOME related, and things
>> don't significantly differ here.
>>
>> - One of the things a little more difficult (though not that much of a
>> problem, of course) seems finding pre-built software - the apt repositories
>> available to Ubuntu or Debian still are way bigger than the IPS repositories
>>  usable to OpenSolaris users. In some situations (open-source software) this
>> might not be a problem as most of this stuff should easily compile on an
>> OpenSolaris system, allowing a local administrator to create packages on
>> her/his own if needed and distribute them amongst the local machines, in
>> others (system software, binary stuff) this might not be as easy. VMWare
>> Server was one of these problems when I dealt with it, switched to
>> VirtualBox because of that.
>>
>> - In my opinion, most of the "real" differences are "low-level" enough that
>> the end/everyday user won't be bothered by them. Which is good, in my
>> opinion. ;)
>>     
>
> I am a full-time Linux user for 5 years now and the things that I miss
> on Solaris in general are the Linux commands like- 'lsusb', etc. A
> section in the manual could be devoted to tasks such as these which
> cannot be done on Solaris as in Linux. But, first these tasks have to
> be identified :-)
>
> As Kristian mentioned, the desktop experience is taken care of by
> GNOME- so no real differences.
>
> Also, the new OpenSolaris user would also expect to know some
> differences between the way the directories are organized.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
>   
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