Both Linux and Solaris are flavours of UNIX. Solaries is the form of unix customized by Sun Microsystems. It is now acquired by Oracle Corporation. Linux is an open source. It is now being customized by many different companies like Oacle Corporation,Red Hat, SuSe, Debian etc. Some unix commands are common to both linux and solaris whereas some commands differ.
Linux is a freeware and some vendors like fedora core offer linux whichcan be downloaded and installed for free. Solaris is licenced version from sun microsystems (can be fixed or floating licence). Both are operating systems upon which all the applications run. Sun has its own form of hardware called as sun servers which are used to host solaris. Check the documentation of the vendor before installing linux to confirm the compatability of linux in the particular hardware. There are many open source forms and groups that helps us information on linux. For more details on Solaris and linux visit this site. It has useful articles. : http://neworacledba.blogspot.com
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