Unix or Linux?

[tarbelly]

unix or linux... isnt that like asking car or 4 wheeled passenger vehicle?

Essentially you learn unix systems of which linux is a part of. Im sure I will get heat from the linux purists who say "linux is not unix". When you boil it down to the basics, you have mostly the same commands, a few might be vendor specific, but there is no apples to oranges comparison in my book. Once you learn unix, you can pretty much hop around to whatever flavor you like, bsd, linux, solaris. Its a bit of a stretch to get into the more obscure vendor flavors HPUX, AIX but you can still manage. Linux is a very user friendly platform to learn on, but if you can bear it, learn the command line interface (CLI), it gets you in "the club" for unix street cred.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell

STAY AWAY from the Sunblade100 and 150 as well as Ultra5/10 and any SPARCstation. They are crap now. The Ultra 60 and 80 have aged much nicer and with adding a supported USB/Firewire PCI card and some cheap external disks, make really nice home fileservers (FTP, samba, and NFS).

What would you load on an ultra5? Our workplace is getting rid of all the ultra5's(hundreds of them) but I wanna keep one at my desk to play around with. Today I loaded aurora 2.0, which didn't go too bad, still trying to get the dual monitors working. I got 512MB RAM and only a 8GB harddrive. May be able to get a bigger hard drive to put into it, not sure if a hp kayak hard drive will work in it. Would solaris 10 load on it?