Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Rich Teer wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2008, John Levon wrote:
> >
> >> I'm genuinely confused: what parts of the OpenSolaris don't make Solaris
> >> a better Solaris? Which features are retrograde steps?
> >
> > /usr/gnu being at the front of the default PATH for one.
>
> You can't convince me that using Unix as long as you have that you
> don't already have a .profile or .cshrc to set your $PATH and will
> never use the default PATH, no matter what it is.
The problem is not with us - the UNIX professionals.
The problem is with newbies. They tend to use the default PATH and then
will e.g. get a chmod that does not support ACLs and a "tar" that does not
create tar archives.
J?rg
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