On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
I think the most important reason to do this is that it makes administration easier for you - could you explain how that's the case, for people who are unfamiliar with system administration?
All the commands for managing system startup, controlling services, dealing with the filesystem and disks, debugging, etc., etc. are totally different between Linux and Solaris. Or almost all of them. Administering them is completely different on all levels, you more or less have to relearn all the tools from scratch. You also have to install all software twice, once for all the Solaris machines and once for nightshade. And keep track of two streams of OS and software updates, and install them separately. If you're using only one platform, all this is much simpler.