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James Tuttle wrote: > Trying to port my Linux experience to Solaris 10 makes my brain bleed > some days. I'd recommend, and this is probably too onerous for the > original poster, installing OpenSolaris in a virtual machine if the > installation route seems viable. The differences between Solaris (or > #@$%@# Solaris!, as we affectionately call it) and Linux are pretty > great. However, installing a distro inside VirtualBox is probably a > little more advanced than the OP may be prepared for. > At a former job, long, long ago I was a unix systems administrator for a small company (long before that I was a unix system administrator for a very large company) that developed some software products which ran on various versions of unix. As a result we had hardware from many different vendors to run the various versions of unix. If I recall correctly I supported machines running 8 different flavors of unix, all of which were slightly different. Linux was barely on the radar at the time so it wasn't one of them. *Most* of the command line commands one needs are essentially the same and have their roots with old BSD systems or System V.