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Monday Feb 25, 2008
Unix choices on my laptop and competition

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Solaris vs Linux as in this article about open source weblog this is quite relevant to the situation and decision that I have to make now. I need to choose what OS to use for the next 3yrs on my laptop and home computer. I will not change the type of Unix or Linux flavour every couple of months, that is a waste of my time.

Someone said that chosing which OS to run is so 1990's and not relevant nowadays. So why all the publicity and air time that this subject gets.

I want a computing platform that is reliable, has support, does not need daily weekly security bug fixes, I can understand and fix myself. This is from a domestic point of view and what I need to use commercially everyday for my work.

Corporates I assume do not care about the OS, until something goes wrong or they discover that the support costs start to become to high. Are all the Linux kernels really the same, I had as much of a change going from Red Hat to Mandrake to Suse as from HP-UX to Solaris. If you are a company running Mandrake or Suse, how easy is it really to go to Red Hat. Personally lots of things changed for me when I changed the Linux that I used. But I did it to learn about this new type of Unix. Now I have been through several Linux's what do I do next. To store pictures etc, ZFS which has the best data integrity and stops you from loosing data is what differentiates Sun Solaris, I cannot see anything new like this in Red Hat.

In the Unix area there is Solaris, Red Hat, Ubuntu, FreeBSD and Mac OS. There is also Windows, XP and Vista if you do not want to run Unix.

The battle is not Linux vs Unix but about four packages/operating systems as described above.

Posted at 03:25PM Feb 25, 2008 by Valdis Filks in Sun  |  Comments[3]

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Well, of your list, only two are really Unix(tm): Solaris and Mac OS X (10.5). :)

Posted by Brett on February 25, 2008 at 06:54 PM CET #

I am struggling to find real differences between Unix and Linux.

For example this site is just wrong, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_Linux_and_Unix

Solaris runs on low cost hardware as does Linux, Linux runs on many platforms as does Solaris (but Sun may not support all of them like Solaris, which runs on the IBM mainframe). Many other companies use Solaris like Fujitsu for example.

Is the difference between two Unixes like Solaris and AIX greater or lesser than the difference between Solaris and Red Hat.

Now the difference between z/OS and VMS is very great, but the Unix and Linux differences seem to be marketing and positioning, not really technical or business.

Posted by Valdis on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 PM CET #

I have a triple boot Vista & Ubuntu Linux on my Laptop, with Ubuntu almost as flawless at Vista in terms of Installation

Solaris Express makes up the party only because it's linked to my career & certification upgrade

The GRUB implementation is bizzare

Posted by Dr S Velvet (Ms) on February 27, 2008 at 03:45 PM CET #

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