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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I use openindiana. It is open. Illumos
is it's open code base.<br>
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linda<br>
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On 3/20/13 11:27 AM, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Is anyone using OpenSolaris? I know Oracle closed Solaris
development, but there are derivatives of OpenSolaris. I'm using
Arch Linux, but am thinking about the following comments from
a C++ newsgroup. I'm thinking that eventually I may use Solaris
from Oracle so using OpenSolaris before that might be a good idea.
Tia.
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<pre wrap="">One thing about Unix, especially modern Linux distros, is that it has
been kind of designed for development, unlike Windows, which has been
designed as a graphical user interface, with little regard to anything
else.
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That comment shouldn't be specific to Linux, most modern UNIX systems
are equally, if not more, developer friendly.
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Apart from the *BSDs, not in the sense that JN meant. Are there
really any left, anyway?
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In my opinion Solaris (and the numerous OpenSolaris derivatives) have
better developer tools than Linux, especially for analysing applications
(and the OS) in a production0n environment.
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