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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Which Unix for me? Post 302258759 by reborg on Saturday 15th of November 2008 10:12:01 PM

11-15-2008

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Well if you want to run a Sys V based system at home your only real option is Solaris (free to use), although there really is no such thing as a true Sys V anymore. All of the OSes that have grown up from SVR4 have extended in their own ways and diverged from the original.

There is nothing wrong with using a GNU/Linux system such as Debian for learning Unix, although I do think it is always good to learn within the limitiations of the more restricted commands of the 'traditional' Unixes such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and the various BSD OSes since it will make it easier for you to cross-over between them and also into Linux if you are not dependening on the various GNU extensions, even if you do later decide to use them.

Personally I like to be flexible with OSes, and try not to get too caught up in which one I am using unless it truely is a platform specific task. A dual boot Solaris/Linux or combination of virtual machines would be a pretty decent compromise.

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sys::filesystem::solaris

Sys::Filesystem::Solaris(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Sys::Filesystem::Solaris(3pm)

NAME

       Sys::Filesystem::Solaris - Return Solaris filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       See Sys::Filesystem.

INHERITANCE

	 Sys::Filesystem::Solaris
	 ISA Sys::Filesystem::Unix
	   ISA UNIVERSAL

METHODS

       version ()
	   Return the version of the (sub)module.

ATTRIBUTES

       The following is a list of filesystem properties which may be queried as methods through the parent Sys::Filesystem object.

       device
	   Resource name.

       device_to_fsck
	   The raw device to fsck.

       mount_point
	   The default mount directory.

       fs_vfstype
	   The	name of the file system type.

       fs_freq
	   The number used by fsck to decide whether to check the file system automatically.

       mount_at_boot
	   Whether the file system should be mounted automatically by mountall.

       fs_mntops
	   The file system mount options.

       time
	   The time at which the file system was mounted.

SEE ALSO

       Solaris::DeviceTree

VERSION

       $Id: Solaris.pm 128 2010-05-12 13:16:44Z trevor $

AUTHOR

       Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - <http://perlgirl.org.uk>

       Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - <http://www.rehsack.de/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington.  Copyright 2009,2010 Jens Rehsack.

       This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

       <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>

perl v5.10.1							    2010-05-18					     Sys::Filesystem::Solaris(3pm)