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. >>>> 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. >>> >>> That comment shouldn't be specific to Linux, most modern UNIX systems >>> are equally, if not more, developer friendly. >> >> Apart from the *BSDs, not in the sense that JN meant. Are there >> really any left, anyway? > > 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. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises - so far G-d has helped us. http://webEbenezer.net (651) 251-9384 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130320/3f4c6e60/attachment.html>