FreeBSD and Solaris.. the differences?

Gary vex555 at gmx.net
Mon Feb 2 19:27:14 PST 2004


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:01:34 +1100
Mark Gladman <mark at fantoma.net> wrote:

> Hey Peeps,
> 
> I've got to start doing some Solaris stuff as a part of my classwork
> in a few weeks time, and was wondering if anyone knew of any good
> web-pages which show the differences (user-side) between Solaris and
> FreeBSD?

I'm no expert but I think one of the main differences is the start-up.
Solaris (system 5 Unix) like Linux uses runlevels with a different
directory for each runlevel containing links to the scripts to run on
startup. BSD puts its startup commands in /etc/rc.boot or /etc/rc.local.
Gary


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