On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your mail also shows poor English and muddled thinking. Everyone does not have the same command over English. > Along with that you want to become a systems admin instead of a programmer. The OP at the outset says he is a Linux admin. and not a programmer. I did not get this impression that he wants to be a programmer. What I gathered was that he is looking for a career path in the Sys Admin domain. > > So it is all wrong. > What exactly do you mean by the above statement? That it is wrong to be a Sys Admin? > Anyway Solaris is old commercial UNIX. It may be old but I believe Oracle is still putting out newer versions of it and it is still in use in the BFSI market segment. > > Today by UNIX people mean FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. > Any references? To my knowledge the above are derivatives of the original AT&T Unix from Bell Labs. Besides, to call anything Unix, it has to be certified by the OpenGroup which owns the Unix trademark <http://www.unix.org/>. Potentially any OS, including Linux, can be called Unix if one wants to take it through the certification process: <http://www.opengroup.org/certification/idx/unix.html> > > Nowadays Solaris is hardly used. > Oracle would not put resource in to newer releases if they thought it was dead. My 11.4 paise. -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
