If anyone wants to give this a go (or has core knowledge in a particular
area), I'd certainly appreciate input on things like -
Shells
a modern bash (3.x+) as default shell for new users would be great;
typically our local sysadmins all immediately run bash right after login
to get a shell with history, command completion, etc. :)
[this is not a linuxism; osx doesn't use tcsh anymore either :)]
i'm not opposed to the current sh staying default for root; there's some
utility in that (in that it gives some added backwards-compat for badly
written installer scripts..), and no one should be logging in as root
anyhow.
zsh in the build would be nice for people who have that particular kink.
Userspace Utilities (compiler, archiving, editors, ...)
solaris seems to be doing pretty well on this front... except for tar.
sun probably needs a tar modernization project. gnutar extensions plus
POSIX acls plus whatever acl support is necessary for nfsv4 and ZFS acl
support. :-)
bundling a saner build of Amanda with opensolaris, rather than the pile of
doody that's in SFW currently, would be the bees knees.
Languages (C, Python, Perl, ...)
modern python please. better support for people using either/or gcc and
sunstudio on the same box, better conflict avoidance in compiler
toolchains.
--e
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