AT&T thinking of abandoning Windows

[Shawn McMahon]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:11:28PM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin said:
> > I believe being non-compliant is consdered a bug, but even if not, the
> > differences are pretty minor.
> The differences between Solaris and Linux are not minor. I can't detail them 
> because I don' know enough about Solaris, but from what I've heard from those 
> who do. They seem to be different enough.

It comes down to the definition of "minor", and in what things you do
with them.  I administrate both for a living, and I think you're both
right.  I'll say this; writing a script to do the same configuration
task on both is essentially writing two scripts.  They configure very
differently.  However, administrators of one don't have a very hard time
learning to do the equivalent tasks on the other.  They're both Unix.
(As opposed to UNIX.)

The biggest pains come where the utilities have the same name but take
different options and have different quirks, and that's more a GNU thing
than a Linux thing.  tar and grep are cases in point.

The number one way that Linux administrators step on their wangs
administrating Solaris is "killall".  The killall that most Linux
distributions ship ( http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/ ) is similar to
Solaris pkill, which lets you send a signal to all processes that match
a regex.

Solaris killall sends a signal to ALL PROCESSES.  I think it will even
ignore anything you type for the regex, without giving an error...

Hilarity ensues.


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