Re: Hello everybody

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:10:39AM +0530, shyamk@eth.net <shyamk@eth.net> wrote:
| I gather that Solaris is a  member of the Unix family , a cousin of  Linux .
| Could somebody in the know of things , please tell me from where I can gather information on  :
| 1. What really is Solaris ?

Solaris is Sun's UNIX distribution.

| 2. Is it really a member of the Unix family ?

Yes - its ancestry comes from the SysVr4 sources.

| 3. How do you work on it ? (Like in Unix , SCO , Linux etc ?) 

Exactly as in Linux or any of the other UNIXen.

| 4. How different is it from other members of the Unix family .

It has a System V feel to it. Linux systems tend to come with the GNU tools
set, which has a BSD feel to it.

It's not much different than any other UNIX is from its bretheren.

| 5. How and from where can I get Solaris such that I get all that can be summed up as 'Solaris' , and that too , free (!) of cost.

Start at www.sun.com - you can download Solaris from there.

| 6. Can I stage manage a Solaris partition , by working  through the Linux (I of course mean : a) Setting up a proper partition for Solaris b) copying him there c)Telling lilo to look there and also provide ability to boot Solaris , side by side with Lin and Win)

x86 solaris, yes I expect so, though I've not tried it. I run Solaris on
a separate box, sparc based.
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