Hi,
Though this might not be any question in the real sense.
I have access to a variety of platforms and I would like to know which
one would be a really interesting platform to learn more,and enhance my
moderate level of Unix and the C language knowledge.Interesting in
this context would mean that on the particular platform the rules of the
game would be completely different and which in turn will allow me to
know the inner workings and intricasies.
I believe you would say that I am going in the reverse direction,but I
feel we gain more this way, rather than just using the portable
interfaces and sit back to watch it work finely across
platforms.Portablility is important stuff,but its abstraction just takes
away the charm of learning.

I have choices of platforms like TRU64/Alpha,VMS/Alpha DEC
Unix,Linux/390,SCO UnixWare/x86,Linux/PPC64,USS OS/390 etc along with
the common platforms on [ULTRA]SPARC/PA-RISC/x86_64/x86/IA64.

Would appreciate your precious comments and your experiences.

TIA
~

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I used OpenBSD, i have love it since then.

It rocks.

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grid wrote:
> Hi,
>   Though this might not be any question in the real sense.
> I have access to a variety of platforms and I would like to know which
> one would be a really interesting platform to learn more,and enhance my
>  moderate level of Unix and the C language knowledge.Interesting in this
> context would mean that on the particular platform the rules of the game
> would be completely different and which in turn will allow me to know
> the inner workings and intricasies.
>     I believe you would say that I am going in the reverse direction,but
> I feel we gain more this way, rather than just using the portable
> interfaces and sit back to watch it work finely across
> platforms.Portablility is important stuff,but its abstraction just takes
> away the charm of learning.
>
> I have choices of platforms like TRU64/Alpha,VMS/Alpha DEC
> Unix,Linux/390,SCO UnixWare/x86,Linux/PPC64,USS OS/390 etc along with
> the common platforms on [ULTRA]SPARC/PA-RISC/x86_64/x86/IA64.
>
> Would appreciate your precious comments and your experiences.
>
> TIA
> ~

Solaris has a number of interesting APIs (both standard and native) and
tools. One can use it a long time and still find something one didn't
know before.

Examples are: posix/solaris threads, remote/local shared memory,
libumem, libxnet, performance counters, kernel statistics, zones,
dtrace, resource management, processor set management, ...

For the basics see standards(5) on a Solaris box.

HTH,
Tom

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