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Operating Systems Solaris Ubuntu 10.04 LTS vs Solaris 10 Post 302571187 by jk121960 on Sunday 6th of November 2011 03:57:03 PM

11-06-2011

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I will offer one more view, Solaris is quite different in every way and there is a learning curve, one alternative you may want to consider is one that I took. I moved to the root of why eveyone builds on Debian, amazing stability and the originator of the apt package management. It has a great selection of software over 28000 packages. It is a rolling release with great stability, so the advantage of LTS is also the same for this. It has all the desktop bells and whistles but I found it to be much more stable. The only thing I went outside to upgrade was the NVidia driver. They offer the proprietary but it is not as current as ubuntu/Mint Fedora etc. So I installed their version, their way. This did all the neccessary blacklisting then I installed the latest Nvidia from the NVidia site. This brought the graphics up to par. The community is the best I have seen, knowledgeable and willing to help. (Every post I put was answered even just to say they would check it out and if they found something let me know) , I had a lot of peculiar questions. I bounced around for years was on Mint then Ubuntu then I went to Debian the source of about half the distro's out there. Solaris is a hefty powerful beast but will take a commitment to learn and does not have the advantages you grew use to in Ubuntu, one poster mentioned Solaris 11, that would be a step in between, he is right and it is geared more for the modern user but does have the time into that genre that Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora have. For me it is Debian all the way, stability, speed and versatility, and it is on like almost every platform out there literally amd64, armel, hppa, kfreebsd,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc and sparc. Hope this helps( I sounded like a commercial but I can't help it, I bounced around for years.)

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ubuntu-dev-tools(5)						File Formats Manual					       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)

NAME

       ubuntu-dev-tools - Configuration for the ubuntu-dev-tools package.

DESCRIPTION

       The  ubuntu-dev-tools  package  is  similar in scope to the devscripts(1) package, providing a collection of scripts which may be of use to
       Ubuntu and Debian developers or others wishing to build Debian packages.

       Some of these scripts have options which may be configured  on  a  system-wide  and  per-user  basis.   These  options  are  configured	in
       devscripts.conf(5).

       All variables are described in the script's manpages. Package-wide variables begin with "UBUNTUTOOLS" and are listed below.

       Every script which reads the configuration files can be forced to ignore them by using the --no-conf command-line option.

ENVIRONMENT

       All ubuntu-dev-tools configuration variables can be set (and overridden) by setting them in the environment (unlike devscripts).

       In addition, several scripts use the following environment variables:

       UBUMAIL
	      Overrides  DEBEMAIL  and	DEBFULLNAME  when  the	target	is  clearly  Ubuntu.   Can  either  contain an e-mail address or Full Name
	      <email@example.org>.

       DEBEMAIL, DEBFULLNAME
	      As in devscripts(1).

PACKAGE-WIDE VARIABLES
       The currently recognised package-wide variables are:

       UBUNTUTOOLS_BUILDER
	      This specifies the preferred test-builder, one of pbuilder (default), sbuild, pbuilder-dist.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBIAN_MIRROR
	      The preferred Debian archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://ftp.debian.org/debian (no trailing slash).  If not specified, the
	      master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBSEC_MIRROR
	      The  preferred Debian security archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://security.debian.org (no trailing slash).  If not speci-
	      fied, the master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UBUNTU_MIRROR
	      The preferred Ubuntu archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (no trailing slash).  If not specified,
	      the master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UBUNTU_PORTS_MIRROR
	      The preferred Ubuntu archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://ports.ubuntu.com (no trailing slash).	If not specified, the mas-
	      ter will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_LPINSTANCE
	      The launchpad instance to communicate with. e.g. production (default) or staging.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_MIRROR_FALLBACK
	      Whether or not to fall-back to the master archive mirror.  This is usually the desired behaviour, as mirrors can	lag  the  masters.
	      If on a private network with only a local mirror, you may want to set this to no.  One of yes (default) or no.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UPDATE_BUILDER
	      Whether or not to update the test-builder before each test build.  One of yes or no (default).

       UBUNTUTOOLS_WORKDIR
	      The directory to use for preparing source packages etc.  When unset, defaults to a directory in /tmp/ named after the script.

SEE ALSO

       devscripts(1), devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       This manpage was written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

ubuntu-dev-tools						 December 19 2010					       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)