[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Rich Burridge]

Milan Jurik wrote:
> Did I call sudo rubbish? In that case, I'm sorry. But why sudo should be
> the key part of Indiana? Because there are some heterogeneous networks
> with Linux and Solaris together? Admins can download sudo from
> repositories, if they really want. Improve packaging management and core
> system, not quantity of bundled tools.
>   

This all goes back to who you want to attract to Indiana. Who our 
potential  customers are.
We should be trying to attract Gnu Linux users as well as keeping 
Solaris users. In
order to attract Gnu Linux users, we should be trying to keep their user 
experience
as familiar as possible. Therefore sudo should be provided. We shouldn't 
throw out
Solaris approaches to security because of this though. There is room for 
both.

Last year I went from using Solaris to Ubuntu as my main development 
desktop,
because life for me as a GNOME developer was so much easier there. I'd 
been using
"Solaris" for 19 years. I went through the reverse experience; trying to 
work out what
the Ubuntu equivalent of my favorite Solaris commands were. It was 
initially painful.
Now its automatic. Let's try to take away this initially learning curve 
for those potential
Gnu Linux converts. They may not all have the patience it takes to learn 
umpteen
different Solaris specific commands they are not used to (even if they 
are better).