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

[Josh Hurst]

On 8/7/07, Chris Pickett <pkchris at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Craig McClanahan <craigmcc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/6/07, Ché Kristo <chekristo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > maybe where it makes sense to do so, perhaps when a user tries to run say top we could spit out a url to a page explaining why tope is not there and how Solaris/Indiana does it better
> > > [snip]
> >
> > OK, I'll bite.  I'm a Sun employee (and heavy user of Ubuntu) that is
> > extremely disillusioned with everything I have seen that Open Solaris
> > has done so far.
> >
> > I tried Solaris Developer Express (several iterations).  I really
> > tried.  I can deal with the fact that it didn't know about my laptop's
> > wireless hardware (Ubuntu didn't either until Fiesty).  But I can't
> > deal with the historical Solaris legacy that comes with /bin/sh being
> > Bourne shell, and associated atrocities.
>
> I hope Indiana is going to move /bin/sh from old bourne to ksh93. The
> bourne shell is a pain in the ass and needs to be killed. Indiana
> won't be able to compete with Linux without a better /bin/sh shell.

I wish the Sun managers would come out of their isolated ivory tower
and see what damage they do to their beloved Solaris by keeping the
Bourne shell as default shell. Ian and Marc may be more open minded
but the managers who make the decision need to be convinced.

Josh