Will i be able to install OpenSolaris in vmware? If yes, i might have a bit of mess about with it
Hell yeah!! (i did it a few weeks ago on openbox)
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Hell yeah!! (i did it a few weeks ago on openbox)
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IIRC it uses Gnome as the window manager in X so of course visually it will look the same, it's quite different underneath.
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'Learning Unix' is a little open-ended? Exactly in what context? It's highly unlikely you'll be doing system administration - perhaps shell programming? Depending on the info. the Uni gives you of course...
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If the course is computer forensics, it may be things like analysing/finding log files/disk accesses etc
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You have to remember that the desktop environments/window managers will look the same amongst the differing operating systems. It's what lies beneath that will be different.
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lol, ls and cd are the same.
Remeber, The 2 OSs will seem similar at the command line if they both use bash. AIX's default of korn shell is almost impossible to use if you aren't used to vi control keys.
The big differences are procedural at a really low level.
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Linux uses the GNU userland utilities. Sun uses their own which frequently have different functionality and arguments/syntax. If you're familiar with the GNU syntax it can be frustrating until you get used to what the different utilities use.