the *nix debate...a little decision making help please

[simanek]

Ok, I'm very familiar with Solaris and I want to make the switch completely over to a unix flavor from windows. Which type of *nix do you recommend? I know this is going to lean heavily toward Linux becuase they are free but which distribution would be the most friendly and most like solaris? And no, redhat doesn't count. I tried it once and hated it. Thanks for any and all opinions. Mike
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[bjverzal]

Try freebsd. A friend of mine runs his ISP off it.

Bill.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Isn't solaris for the intel platform free? I thought it was.
Mike Wills
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[rycamor]

FreeBSD!!!

It's free, it's open source and it's a True Unix. It's based on the original Unix (Berkeley), it has the best uptimes of any server OS if you browse

http://www.netcraft.com,

it's got great daemons and uses 'em all, it's got overdrive, it just won't stall. (Apologies for the misuse of "Hot Rod Lincoln" lyrics ;-))

But seriously, if you're used to a serious Unix, FreeBSD is arguably just a little more 'serious' than Linux, as fun as Linux can be. And wasn't the internet kind of... built on BSD computers?

 

[abovebrd]

Solaris does have an intel verison.

However I think SCO unix ROCKS!!!! (It runs on intel)

If your coming from a solaris background any of the *bsd flavors would be a good fit. Although linux has come along way. I dabbled with linux a few years ago and hated it!

Just over the past year I took another look at linux, and I now love it.

Any way you go linux or BSD I think you will be happy.



-Danny