[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Mads Toftum]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:48:42PM +0100, Sean Sprague wrote:
> Well here we find the crux of the "problem" (if it exists). OpenSolaris 
> is trying very hard to be a "get it, burn it, boot it" (GIBIBI (tm)) 
> operating environment. What we have not really addressed is the 
> necessity to *learn* something about UNIX (and *not* GNU; bcoz...) 
> whilst they are experiencing OpenSolaris. This is key; and 
> irreplaceable. If you learn UNIX (an interface thereto) and its 
> utilities, then you can make a choice as to whether to move on to 
> utility sets like those provided by GNU. Only in that way can you 
> achieve a good grounding in "UNIX". If you start with using the 
> GNU-style interface to utilities, then you are "lost" in terms of 
> backwards-compatible understanding.
> 

Largely agreed.

<don't read this>
In the eagerness to bring in the gnu accustomed users, the gap to
Solaris proper gets wider and wider at every turn.
Sure, I can fix my paths but why do they need to be broken? To me as 
a long term Solaris user, the gnu tools violates the "holy grail" of 
compatibility. 
At the rate things are currently going around indiana (think the
incompatibilities, the mess about the naming and the logo) I think that
the result will be a growing defection rate of current solaris users /
customers. the gains could end up being very short lived and the costs
quite substantial. Too much talk of indiana being the future of Solaris
won't do much to make current enterprise users happy.
</don't read this>

vh

Mads Toftum
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