[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[John Plocher]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> They tend to use the default PATH and then
> will e.g. get a chmod that does not support ACLs and a "tar" that does not
> create tar archives.

Lets not overreact - a sense of proportion is good.

As an Unix "Oldby" (going on 28 years...), I can blithfully say that
I have never used ACLs for anything and that I've never tripped over
any of the gnutar misbehaviors...

The likelihood of a newby falling into this type of "unique to
OpenSolaris" problem seems remote at best, especially considering
that THEY ALREADY ARE DOING THINGS THAT WAY ON THEIR MACS AND LINUX
BOXES!

The target for OpenSolaris2008.05 is developers, not "never used
a computer before n00bs", and it is not unreasonable to presume that
developers already use Linux or Macs.

   -John