[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Linux?

[Kristian Rink]

Folks;

Amit k. Saha schrieb:

> 1. Viewing current information about USB devices currently plugged in-
> 'lsusb' does this on Linux

I'd make this a little more general: Determining "which hardware is where"
on an OpenSolaris drive? Given /dev naming conventions differ pretty much,
having a clearly outlined getting-started reference for the most commonly
used "devices" (disk drives? cdrom / removable drives? disk partitions?
network devices? ...?) seems helpful to me.

Asides this, of course, the ever-present question of "how to use XY with
OpenSolaris?" as soon as hardware is involved. Think, in example, of
anything eventually present in a customer notebook nowadays (including
readers for various kinds of flash cards, bluetooth / irda devices, ...). As
soon as I am on the road with my notebook, I might want to know how to use
bluetooth with my cellphone to connect to "the world"...


> 3. Explanation of the Solaris concepts such as  that of a 'pool'

Again, making it more "general" in explaining a few things on (Open)Solaris
file system management. Haven't so far bothered reviewing the existing
documentation on that, to be very honest, so forgive me if something like
this is already available. ;)

One thing I would like to see added is a rather quick-dive into how to
register system services on (Open)Solaris tailored towards the needs of
those perfectly firm with using /etc/init.d and friends to do so. :)

Just a few ideas, of course. :)
Cheers,
Kristian


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