Why would Linux administrators want to take a look at OpenSolaris?
Henry Foxwell: Three reasons. First, it is designed to look like the environment that a Linux developer and administrator is familiar with. It has the Gnome [desktop environment] and all the GNU and Gnome tools. So the learning effort is not great, because the environment looks very much the same. Foxwell: Another reason is that it includes all of the open-source AMP [Apache-MySql-PHP/Perl/Python] stack software that administrators and developers are familiar with. So again, the tools you use to build the infrastructure, the Web-based application services, will be familiar to you here. The point that I made in the beginning of the book is that some people call themselves Linux developers but they really are open-source developers who happen to run their applications on a Linux OS. They could, in theory, use some other OS to support the tools they use. And OpenSolaris, in fact, does. And third and most important reason is that we believe OpenSolaris has interesting technologies that are
