The first Linux OS I used is Fedora and RedHat when I was doing my PG. Most of the machines in our college is running Fedora and after two three days I will be comfortable with the new OS. At the time of computer lab and free times I used to do some other things like installing some packages and other things. Almost two years I used Fedora. Because it is a community product it is not stable, there are many bugs. Even though I used Fedora I also tried Ubuntu. Ubuntu is much better than fedora and it is also free.

After I got the job as Server Administrator, the company server were running on Ubuntu Servers. So for the last 6 months I am using ubuntu. And there is not much differences in the file system. Only some differences in some command for example we use ‘yum’ command to install any thing in fedora and ‘apt-get, ‘aptitude’ command to install any thing in Ubuntu.I did’nt find any big difficulties in using Ubuntu, ofcource there are lots of help if we go online. Last two weeks back I installed Ubuntu 8.04 in my laptop, it is quite good.

Last week I got an iso image of OpenSolaris and I installed OpenSolaris in the VMWare virtual machine. Solaris is one of the best OSin the world and it is stable. First I installed apache, mysql and PHP in the Solaris machine. I used the command ‘pkg-get’ to install these packages. In Fedora and Ubuntu the configuration files of installed pakages where stored in the location /etc/. But for OpenSolaris the configuration files where stored in the location /opt/csf/etc.