[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
>>> I'm a longtime Linux guy, and when I'm in a terminal window on OS X, I
>>> basically can't tell the difference from Linux.  If I want to do
>>> system-oriented stuff, there are some issues, but you'd expect that.
>>> But all my usual commands for moving around, looking at things, seeing
>>> what's running, etc etc etc, are 100% the same...
>>
>> I totally agree. And that's speaking, not as a longtime Linux guy, but
>> a longtime 80% SunOS/Solaris, 20% Linux guy.
>>
>> I like the OS X comparison. Almost daily on Solaris Express I do
>> something like grep -A etc instead of ggrep -A etc; or tar -j etc
>> instead of gtar -j etc[1]. (I admit to even feeling a mini-thrill the
>> day I realized, totally by accident, that ls -S worked out-of-the-box
>> on Solaris Express :) )
>>
>
> Did you fill RFE?

No, I admit having total, blind-faith confidence that the SFW
consolidation team that is working on stuff stemming from case 2007/047
already has them on their near-term roadmap. (Which of course is to
say, they are already on the Solaris Express/Indiana nearterm roadmap.)

Eric