RE: [cobalt-users] Netra x1_

["Colin J. Raven" <cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04.24.01 (18:02) Brandon added to the body of knowledge
thusly;

> > In the dark hours of Monday 04.23.01 (20:44)Jonathan emitted the
> > following thoughts;
> >
> > > Solaris is a very different animal from Linux...
> >
> > Woof! You have a penchant for understatement.
> > Different?? Yeah, you are NOT kidding!!!
> > -Colin.
>
> I would encourage folks to try Solaris and judge for themselves.
> If you are well versed with Linux command line administration,
> picking up Solaris, while different in some aspects, is not hard
> at all.  The main differences are the network configurations,
> for example, but because they are different doesn't make Solaris
> any harder to use than Linux.  You have to learn how to do it,
> just as you did under Linux.
>
In agreeing with Jonathan that Solaris *is* different (and then some)I
was not saying it was "bad" in any way...in fact Solaris
rocks.......period.
IMHO it is truly the "bad boy" of UNIX. Powerful, versatile, capable of
any-darned-thing-you-toss-at-it,
scalable-to-a-fare-thee-well.....<rant...rant...rant>
Gotta luv those big Sony tubes that come with an UltraSparc. My *old*
(bought used) home UltraSparc: dual 300MHZ cpu's, 4 darned giggys of
RAM, a graphics card that seems to have a gazillion megs of it's own
ram, a 23" big tube, just flies doing **anything** including graphics
rendering. Best used machine I ever bought, though admittedly hardly
state-of-the-art any more. <lust, drool, pant>
<ahem> Yes indeedy, Solaris rules.
-Colin