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Comparing experience with AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
Post 302524597 by bartus11 on Tuesday 24th of May 2011 03:53:01 AM
05-24-2011
I don't have much experience with AIX or HP-UX, but Solaris seems very good choice for those requirements.
1. If you will go with Solaris 11 Express, then standard Solaris development tools like Sun Studio are available, as well as GNU tools (gcc, gmake etc). Dtrace is great for debugging misbehaving applications, but it requires some time to learn.
2. I think any of those three systems pass this requirement.
3. Read about Solaris zones. It has all the features you are talking about.
4. Dtrace is the answer for pinpointing the problems. As for documentation former docs.sun.com can be found under: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search which is amazing Solaris docs collection. Solaris 10 and 11 documentation collections can also be found here: Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release Oracle Solaris 11 Express Information Library 2010.11 Release. Great community help regarding Solaris can be found here.
One more thing that you should consider is ease of running the system on workstation hardware. Solaris can be easily installed and used on regular consumer level x86 PCs, while AIX and HP-UX are restricted to POWER and IA-64. I guess you won't find many workstations running this kind of processors
1. If you will go with Solaris 11 Express, then standard Solaris development tools like Sun Studio are available, as well as GNU tools (gcc, gmake etc). Dtrace is great for debugging misbehaving applications, but it requires some time to learn.
2. I think any of those three systems pass this requirement.
3. Read about Solaris zones. It has all the features you are talking about.
4. Dtrace is the answer for pinpointing the problems. As for documentation former docs.sun.com can be found under: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search which is amazing Solaris docs collection. Solaris 10 and 11 documentation collections can also be found here: Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release Oracle Solaris 11 Express Information Library 2010.11 Release. Great community help regarding Solaris can be found here.
One more thing that you should consider is ease of running the system on workstation hardware. Solaris can be easily installed and used on regular consumer level x86 PCs, while AIX and HP-UX are restricted to POWER and IA-64. I guess you won't find many workstations running this kind of processors
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answerbook2
answerbook2(1) User Commands answerbook2(1) NAME
answerbook2 - online documentation system SYNOPSIS
/usr/dt/bin/answerbook2 [-h] DESCRIPTION
The AnswerBook2 server product is no longer included with Solaris or the Solaris Documentation CD products. Solaris docmentation is now provided in HTML and PDF format on the Documentation CD and does not require the AnswerBook2 server to be viewed. The answerbook2 utility opens the default web browser and displays an HTML page that shows a link to locally installed documentation, and, if the AnswerBook2 server has been defined, a link to AnswerBook2 collections. To define a default AnswerBook2 server, use the environment variable, AB2_DEFAULTSERVER. This functionality is also accessible through the AnswerBook2 option on the CDE front panel Help menu. If you need an AnswerBook2 server, you can download the AnswerBook2 server software from http://www.sun.com. OPTIONS
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AB2_DEFAULTSERVER Fully-qualified URL that identifies the default AnswerBook2 server to use. For example: http://imaserver.eng.sun.com:8888/ ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |http://www.sun.com | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) NOTES
Use the online Help system to find out more about the AnswerBook2 product, once the web browser is opened and the AnswerBook2 library can be viewed. SunOS 5.10 29 Nov 2001 answerbook2(1)