[desktop-discuss] Finally Gnome terminal has HOME and END key support

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> Why should it be bad to keep new people happy? There aren't

It's not--unless it is at the expense of current users.

> that many Solaris users out there, after all - especially not if
> you compare that to switchers, from, let's say, Linux.

There's a very old and wise saying: "Make new friends but keep the
old, for the new are silver but the old are gold".  Replace friends
with customers, and perhaps my point will be clearer.

To take it to an absurd extreme, pehaps we should drop DTrace in favour
of SystemTap, or ZFS for Ext3?  After all, that is what people coming
from Linux would expect...

Sun is trying to make Solaris like Linux so much it's hurting (them).
I'm all for adopting new technologies from other platforms, or taking
inspiration from them (I'm not a NIH Neanderthal!), but not at the
expense of what makes Solaris Solaris rather than SoLinux.

I had my doubts the day Ian Murdock's appointment was announced.  It
seems my fears were justified.

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