[indiana-discuss] FAM-2 ( was Re: Indiana Problem Statement )

[Mike Gerdts]

On 7/2/07, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/documents/problem_statement/
>
> [ just to recap, FAM-2 says:
>
> FAM-2: Provide an environment such that migrating (particularly
>        GNU/Linux) users will be familiar with the utilities
>        available, while preserving the binary compatibility
>        story that people want and expect. ]
>
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:26 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > People would expect things like tab completion in the shell (and some
> > shortcuts like Ctrl+R), top, ps aux, vim, tar zxvf to work, they don't
> > care if they are GNU or not. I think that we should, at least, provide
> > information to the user, when usual Linux commands are typed, on how
> > to get the same information. For example, typing top, we could point
> > them to the equivalent tool in OpenSolaris, kind of the Google's "Did
> > you mean" or the new stuff in the ubuntu shell.

Ugh.  This sounds way too much like /usr/ucb/cc when the compiler was
no longer in SunOS (at least Solaris 2.4 - 9).  Or like patch(1) in
HP-UX 9ish.  I have a severe disliking for things that are in a
reasonable $PATH that say "this command is broken".  It is even worse
if the exit code for such a command is ever 0.

Mike

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