[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contents for slim install]

Chris Pickett pkchris at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Aug 7 09:53:04 PDT 2007


On 8/6/07, Keith Bierman <Keith.Bierman at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Mark Phalan wrote:
> That way, Solaris.Next could still have ksh88, and usual utilities
> and etc. and users who set the right configuration option
> (systemwide, per user, whatever, defer to PSARC) would be able to
> accept Indiana interoperability nearly, but not quite transparently.

I don't understand why you want to keep ksh88 around. Could you
explain why you want to keep 20 year old and unmaintained software
around? After reading lots of community messages I think the opinion
outside Sun is that /bin/ksh and /bin/sh need to be updated ASAP.
Otherwise Indiana will not be able to compete with other open source
operating system projects such as Linux.

Chris
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