in a nutshell solaris is suns own flavour of unix original message from kiall mac innes mailto kiall redpie com sent NUMBER august NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER to ilug subject ilug sun solaris can someone explain what type of operating system solaris is as ive never seen or used it i dont know wheather to get a server from sun or from dell i would prefer a linux based server and sun seems to be the one for that but im not sure if solaris is a distro of linux or a completely different operating system can someone explain kiall mac innes irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 