On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 15:47, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > It's odd that Sun are releasing a new version of > solaris for intel as well as a linux distro, still > they must know what they're doing :-). Solaris is a different beast from Linux -- speaking out of experience here :) SunOS makes different compromises compared to the Linux kernel, and some things (threads) work quite differently behind the scenes.
>From what I can gather, Sun agreed to release Solaris 9 (think of Solaris as a SunOS distribution) after a lot of users complained. It should be good for the community because it gives people a real SysV Unix to try things out on. (No, Linux is not quite real -- the utilities work a bit different.) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
