Re: Linux question

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

Hello,

	I think that you will find that Solaris 8 is the last release of Solaris that Sun 
will put out on the Intel platform, Solaris 9 is only sparc. Sun has their own 
Linux distro in the works so that will do the replacement for the Sol 8 Intel OS.

	Solaris is a nice way to learn Unix, everything from the basics, but for 
programming its much easier to just get RH Linux 7.3 slap it on using GRUB boot 
loader while dual booting which btw is friendlier (had to object :) ) and that 
does the trick.

	But nonetheless coming from a Sol 6/7/8 background as a student I was prepared in 
the basics so Linux felt like a holiday at the beach. As for shells I don't 
think that it really matters, most of shells that are on Unix are available on 
Linux including a clone ksh. The bash shell will be your friend.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

achana saysit com wrote:
> Matthew McMahon wrote:
>
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> > To Redhat
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> > I'm currently just starting programming at Uni and have been advised that
> > the programs should be developed and tested on Unix at the university. We
> > can develop on windows at home but must test on Unix first. I've never used
> > this before, but was wondering if Unix and Linux are very similar, as I
> > would rarther purchase it, and have the dual OS on my computer to trial and
> > test in my own time at home.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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> "Unix" comes in several different popular but proprietary flavours e.g. HPUX
> (HPCompaq) , AIX (IBM) etc...
> Some are just impressive e.g. Sun Solaris 9 (I think you can download a free
> copy these days , not sure )
> Whilst others are not publicly available anymore e.g. Dec's Ultrix
> There is a  legend i.e. Berkeley's BSD ( Berkeley's www.freebsd.org )
> And there is this tidal wave ,  Linux
> At some point you will need to know what shell you are using  , Bourne-shell
> or C-Shell ?
> It is my believe that if you get into Linux, it will give you a solid
> foundation.
> And yes, you can dual-boot your machine using Lilo (yea yea yea, I hear the
> objections already ...)
> I am sure many others on this forum will know much much more, but start at the
> beginning !


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