<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jeremy Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jellogum@gmail.com">jellogum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Any significant reason to use SOLARIS over a Linux distro for development of software?<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, dtrace, documentation, interface stability, quality of community and many things more. I've worked on both platforms a lot, and dtrace alone can save you days when debugging and analysing software, no matter if kernel or userspace.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does the same C/C++ file compile well on both systems? If there are differences where can I find suggested reading material on the topic?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Which topic exactly? "Software development" is pretty wide a topic. But just to give you something: I recently bought "The Developer's Edge" and enjoyed it very much (see <a href="http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0595352510">http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0595352510</a>).<br>
<br> Joachim<br>