Comparison of Solaris OS and Linux for Application Developers

Posted by dba477 on Feb 19, 2007 12:58 PM EDT
developers.sun.com; By Max Bruning
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This article discusses similarities and differences that will be visible to application programmers and analysts on the Solaris OS and Linux.

It is not meant as an exhaustive description of differences, nor is it meant to show that one OS is superior to the other. Rather, the article tries to help developers experienced in one of the OSes to work with the other OS as quickly as possible.

A simple application that is POSIX-compliant and doesn't make any system calls or library functions specific to the Solaris OS or Linux should be portable between the OSes without changes. You should be able to write your app, compile for the Solaris OS or Linux, and simply recompile for the other OS, and it should work. Most of the system calls and library routines on both OSes will fall into this category.

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