Have come across some odd behaviour. At least it seems odd to me, maybe 'cos I'm missing something!<br><br>OK - I'm writing a client-server style application pair. As a comms protocol I'm doing ...

In my experience the biggest diffence between linux and solaris is the GNU utilities. The GNU tools that come with linux are missing in solaris. Tar, grep, sed, sh in solaris are all old. They are ...

When I interviewed Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell last August, he hinted at a blurring of the lines between Linux and Solaris, if not an outright merger. Said Gingell: "Five years from now, when all ...