On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard(a)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.