Star Comparison: OpenSolaris, Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Sep 2009 16:28 UTC, submitted by Robert Escue
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Apart from Linux and the various BSD operating systems, there's another open source UNIX-like operating system (actually, it's a certified UNIX): OpenSolaris. There are a few key differences between Linux and OpenSolaris, and TuxRadar lists some of them so that Linux users can dive right into Solaris.
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Comment by vermaden
by vermaden on Tue 15th Sep 2009 20:24 UTC
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2006-11-18

number of applications to choose form is quite limited compared to what Linux distributions generally have to offer


That depends what software repository you use ...

You are not limited to IPS, but even IPS has a lot of custom repositories.

You can also use openpkg or NetBSD's crossplatform pkgsrc, here is simple way to add pkgsrc to OpenSolaris installation:

% pfexec su -
# pkg install SUNWgcc
# pkg install SUNWcvs
# cd /usr
# cvs -z9 -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.se:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
# cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
# export PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:{$PATH}
# ./bootstrap

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