[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

John Levon john.levon at sun.com
Tue May 6 11:51:16 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Rich Teer wrote:

> > I'm genuinely confused: what parts of the OpenSolaris don't make Solaris
> > a better Solaris? Which features are retrograde steps?
> 
> /usr/gnu being at the front of the default PATH for one.

Please give a detailed technical reason for why that's an issue. AFAIK
pretty much every GNU tool implementation is both more functional and
significantly faster than the ancient system V ones.

regards
john


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