[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Moinak Ghosh]

Rich Reynolds wrote:
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>   
>> Sean Sprague wrote:
>>     
>>> John,
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Rich and I are of the same broken mould (apols Rich). Gnu's Not UNIX; 
>>> but (Open)Solaris is, as far as we care. If it is Sun's desire to make 
>>> OpenSolaris a GNU-tooled implementation, the so be it. Many of us would 
>>> prefer never to have to use "--" on any of our command options. Also all 
>>> the "ancient" SystemV ones have a rich history (and I believe future) 
>>> that none of us should cast aside.
>>>   
>>>       
>>    Since you are long-time Solaris users familiar with it's nuances, how 
>> long
>>    does it take you to flip your PATH so that /usr/bin is in the front ? How
>>    long will it take an OpenSolaris n00b to figure out it's nuances and 
>> update
>>    the PATH settings so that he can use the familiar GNU tools ? Would he
>>    even care to do such a change if the operating env feels weird and 
>> unfamiliar
>>    right from the start ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
>>     
> this is simply the slow but inexorable drift of operating systems to the 
> land of "user friendly and expert hostile"...
>
> we all understand it, but will continue to whine about it...
>
> sigh,
>   

   Ah, but I do not see a major problem as long as the experts can tweak
   the environment to make it "user hostile expert friendly". What are
   experts for ? ;)

Regards,
Moinak.

> odd1
>
>   
>>> Regards... Sean.
>>>
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