Solaris

This is oracle solaris, as opposed top "opensolaris". Opensolaris is hard to find on the web and when i found an .iso it was dated 2009. It seems development has stopped since 4 years so I opted for oracle.

pkg =~ apt

You can just take the gui package manager instead, but from the command line : For instance

pkg
1	`pkg install vim`

/var/log/syslog =~ /var/adm/messages

There are file in /var/log and in /var/adm.

service =~ smf

Instead of the service command (or the /etc/init.d scripts) you can use like :

service command
1	`service apache2 start`

You can use smf, which GUI is available from the gnome menu's. Or the command line versions :

svcadm
1	`svcadm restart network/http:apache2`

This command lists all running services :

svcs
1	`svcs -a`

resolution

The installation of oracle solaris 11 starts out with a resolution of 1024x768 at most. This proved to be difficult to change the first time. I just could not get it working. The second time, within a minute. Now without trying to figure out what i did wrong the first time, let's just state what exactly id did (right) the second time :

I started out with the oracle solaris 11 live image for x86
In the menu choices just take the first and default
Upon installation, again the resolution is 1024x767
Unmount the iso live disk and choose menu option "install guest additions"
Run the "Open autorun prompt" when you open up VBOXADDITIONSXXX
Type in the use password you gave at installation (it's sudo)
After the installation, the prompt says to re login: do it
Logout, login : The resolution changes !!!
Switch to fullscreen: the resolution is your max resolution !
Check the resolutions, your monitor is now called "VBX"