[Sussex] Solaris Networking

[Desmond Armstrong]

> I would council against CygWin.  Don't get me wrong, CygWin is a great system.
> I installed it on a Win2003 laptop I *had* to use when I worked for a 
> company a few years back.  It made that system useable to me, a long time
> Unix hack.  But the file naming systems on Windows meant that it never
> felt quite right.  So I'd recommend going for the "real" thing.
>
>   
I had a look at cygwin and that is no good, it assumes starting from 
Windows and I have not used that for years.

> If you are trying to determine which would be the right distro for you then
> please don't just ask "Which distro is best?" - you'd be better off putting
> the names into a hat a picking one at random.  90% of what you learn on
> one distro will apply to the others, and 80% will apply to the rest of the
> Unix like OSs (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS/X, ...).  If you can ask
> questions like "Which Linux is the most popular in the server room?" or
> "Which Linux is the least influenced by commercial pressures?" then this
> would be a good thread to discuss the various merits of the different distros
> and find the one that best fits you.
>
>   
Yes working with my favourite distro I have learnt a lot and am learning 
fast.

I went for the OpenBSD and did not find an iso. I was expecting a 
bootable disk so am not sure how to get started with this one.

The unravelling of the history is helpful and I am thinking now that 
they (the unix providers) are looking (generally) to IBM and the 
Linux/GPL communities.

Certainly I will get my Solaris10/i386 running and will form some more 
conclusions.
The BSD excites me and I will press on there.

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