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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:23:54 -0800
From:      Gary <vex555@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Solaris.. the differences?
Message-ID:  <20040202192354.0be2729d.vex555@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <200402030201.34371.mark@fantoma.net>
References:  <200402030201.34371.mark@fantoma.net>

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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:01:34 +1100
Mark Gladman <mark@fantoma.net> wrote:

> Hey Peeps,
> 
> I've got to start doing some Solaris stuff as a part of my classwork
> in a few weeks time, and was wondering if anyone knew of any good
> web-pages which show the differences (user-side) between Solaris and
> FreeBSD?

I'm no expert but I think one of the main differences is the start-up.
Solaris (system 5 Unix) like Linux uses runlevels with a different
directory for each runlevel containing links to the scripts to run on
startup. BSD puts its startup commands in /etc/rc.boot or /etc/rc.local.
Gary



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