How Solaris is different from Linux.

File system structure is same as other *nix. few differences are,
- /usr/adm is symlink to /var/adm which is similar to linux /var/log.
- /usr/sadm - Solaris admin tools like SMC (Solaris management tools)
- /usr/proc - Solaris ptools(process tools) such as pfiles, pmap, pwdx, pstack.
- /usr/X11 - X server and related tools.

Solaris doesnt contain /root directory. Root user shouldnt be doing things which requires /root directory.

In Solaris you will also not find SUDO utility because of RBAC (Role Based Access Control).

In solaris need to add NFS shares to /etc/dfs/dfstab. DFS stands for Distributed File System.

To export filesystems you can edit /etc/dfs/dfstab and run exportfs -a (or svcadm restart svc:/network/nfs/server) or you can use the share command. share allows you to quickly export a filesystem, so if you wanted to NFS share /opt you could just execute share /opt and your done.

Solaris doesn't have top. But, we have something better yet similar: prstat.

you can use the Solaris "ptools" (process tools) to learn more about a process, such as pstack `pgrep cron` to see the call stack of the cron process, or pfiles `pgrep firefox-bin` to see details about every file that Firefox has open.

Packages come in two varieties: filesystem format and datastream.
- A filesystem format package is what you'll find on Sun CD's and is really just a directory stucture containing all the various elements and files of the package.
- A datastream package is a filesystem format package thats rolled into a single file making it easy to compress and distribute over the net. Packages use a common naming convension of ORGsoftware, such as SUNWspro

Both types of packages are installed using the pkgadd command (ie: pkgadd -d ./CUDLgcc-4.0.1.pkg for datastream and pkgadd -d . for filesystem format).

Use svcs to view services, svcadm to administer them (start, stop, etc), and svccfg to add or change them.

SMF services are described in XML manifests, find the default system manifests in /var/svc/manifest. Manifests describe a service, what its dependancies are, supply optional metadata, and provide methods to start, stop, refresh, or restart a service.

The standard Solaris naming convension for disks is: c0t0d0s0, that is to say: controller 0, target 0, LUN 0, slice 0.