Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 19th Aug 2008 14:44 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences to a typical Linux distro.
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** I'm a little put off by FreeBSD in this instance due to it only being experimental support.
Do you realise that FreeBSD "experimental" does not mean same thing in Linux.
Networking works differently to Linux - ipconfig exists but has a different syntax, and eth0 isn't the standard interface.
Last time I used ipconfig in WINDOWS. eth0, eth1, eth2 ...errr how the hell should I know what card it what? When I see rl0 in FreeBSD then I am sure it is Realtek chip, bge0 is Broadcom, em0 is Intel gigabit lan, etc. not like in Linux.
I did find it frustrating to have to relearn commands that I've been using without thinking for years now (eg ifconfig), and right now I'm not convinced that for me it's worth the mental effort...
Oh, just shut up and RTFM!