On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:55 -0500, Derek E. Lewis wrote: > The problem is the freeware -- not Solaris.
Heh... I'd say we have a better chance to change Solaris than to change the rest of the world. > All freeware that uses the > GNU utils should prepend a 'g' to them (ex. 'ggrep, gsed, etc.'). > Solaris follows this naming convention for the most part; however, the > vast majority of freware assumes your userland is ripe with GNU utils. In general, I don't think it's a good idea to have 2 versions of every utility in Solaris. Why not have just one version that works? In some cases the tools are not even incompatible, but the Solaris tool one has only a subset of the features of the GNU tool. > Rather than committing such fixes to Solaris, users building such > freeware should send patches to the maintainers of that particular > project. We've been doing that in the GNOME project but it's an uphill battle and /me thinks it's a complete waste of resources. I guess what I'd like to see on Solaris is an environment where Linux developers feel comfortable (because the features they are used to are there and just work) but those who have been using Solaris from the early days can continue to do things the way they always did. Laca
