Comparison of Solaris OS and Linux for Application Developers
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_linux_app.html
Many developers are writing applications to run under the Linux operating system. With the many new features of the Solaris 10 OS, and with the new emphasis Sun has placed on supporting the Solaris OS on AMD and Intel processor-based machines, developers are becoming interested in being able to develop their applications on the Solaris platform. This article examines similarities and differences in the development environments of both operating systems. Someone responsible for porting applications from Linux to the Solaris OS, or programmers with prior Linux experience that want to learn development on the Solaris OS, should benefit from this article.
In this article, the term "Solaris" refers to the Solaris 10 OS (and OpenSolaris), and "Linux" refers to Linux 2.6. Many of the details covered will also apply to earlier versions of Solaris and Linux. The Linux distribution is meant to be generic, though examples have been tested on SuSe 9.1. Also, the article concentrates on applications written using the C programming language, though C++ should behave the same. Since Java technology-based applications should not be making function calls specific to Linux or the Solaris OS, they should be portable as is.
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