I use openindiana. It is open. Illumos is it's open code base. linda On 3/20/13 11:27 AM, Brian Wood wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130320/a95aff7f/attachment-0001.html>