Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-12-01 Thread peter joseph
Funny you've mentioned it; "the best OpenSolaris documentation doesn't come from Sun...". As I stated in my concluding post above, wikis.sun.com contains numerous documents, among which I found a pdf file entitled Linux to Solaris Administrators Guide, published by TREKLOGIC Inc,Toronto,ON Cana

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey Sun_Joke, I know you probably won't be surprised by this, but the best OpenSolaris documentation for newbies doesn't come from Sun, it comes from the Linux community. Click on the link below to see for yourself: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/opensolaris-vs-linux There you go, all the

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Yes, there is a place for improvements. But OpenSolaris is very young when you compare it to Linux. I think same that 'man -k' must run out of the box. 'pfexec catman -w' may be started automatically after installation or so. Even on BSD you must manually update db for man if you install some a

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:57:48 PST Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Now about frustration : > > You're using Linux (Fedora). Ok. Then maybe you know situations when someone > want similar functionality like in Windows and you maybe know what's the > correct answer. If no then there is - This is a Linux, no

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread peter joseph
Thanks, everybody! Found exactly what I was looking for: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SolarisDeveloper/Migrating+from+Linux+to+Solaris+or+OpenSolaris Excellent link -- good stuff! Perhaps, it would be a good idea to attach this link to SM Download page. If it's there, I couldn't see it over the

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
In fact not so many docs. It will be good idea to provide this link too http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/documentation . I discovered that even now some people don't know about www.opensolaris.org but know about www.opensolaris.com . -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Boris Blutwurst wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> There's so much documentation available you can drown in it. >> http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ > > There is, but from where is e.g. this page linked? Docs.sun/sofware? > Which in turn is accessible from...? I can't see why would total >

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On www.opensolaris.org there are two links full of very usable documentation. One is named Documentation and second one New Documentation (wiki). Both are very good visible. www.opensolaris.com is different story. I can't find similar links right now with some quick overlook. But I feel that th

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > There's so much documentation available you can > drown in it. > > http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ > > There is, but from where is e.g. this page linked? > Docs.sun/sofware? > Which in turn is accessible from...? I can't see why > would total > beginner star

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Hmmm first of all : Maybe it will be good idea to visit your eyes doctor ;-) Stop fun and now seriously :-) If you will enter http://www.opensolaris.org in your browser you can't miss at least those two links http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/documentation (full of superb documentation)

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Boris Blutwurst
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: There's so much documentation available you can drown in it. http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ There is, but from where is e.g. this page linked? Docs.sun/sofware? Which in turn is accessible from...? I can't see why would total beginner start searching right the

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
There's so much documentation available you can drown in it. http://docs.sun.com/source/820-7679/ A better question might be more specific: what commands are you looking for; what do you want to _do_? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ ope

[osol-help] opensolaris commands

2009-11-30 Thread peter joseph
Upon hearing all the noise Sun Micro has been making regarding OpenSolaris I decided to give it a try. SM promptly sent me a CD, free of charge, which I immediately installed on my laptop. Installation was as smooth as baby's but. Even though I have been using Fedora for a number of years, wh