Glynn Foster wrote:
> Userspace Utilities (compiler, archiving, editors, ...)
This is a difficult section to complete, and very much maps together with the
modernization/familiarity issues. I think the answer is close to what the SFW
consolidation (including PSARC cases in the pipeline) already contains, less
some components that don't really seem to be a good fit with the 'basic
operating system and desktop environment' mantra.
Is there anything off this list we're missing eg. locate? Is there anywhere we
can add more value to promote some of the top features of OpenSolaris eg. Zones
or ZFS, and bring them more user visibility?
It might be also worthwhile, at this point, to bring in the Familiarity section
of the problem statement -
3.3) Familiarization
FAM-1: Provide a set of packages in the default install
and network repositories that users would typically
expect to see with a similar UNIX operating system
eg. GNU/Linux.
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.
With PSARC 2007/047 /usr/gnu, various GNU userspace utilities have been included
into /usr/gnu where there is already an existing Solaris utility. Is this
enough? Is a GNU branded zone what we want, or better still to add functionality
to the existing Solaris utilities in a compatible way that appeals to 90% of
what's perceived as missing?
I don't have many answers here - I'm pretty certain we're a lot closer with the
recent work that's been done. Is closer rather than better where we need to be?
Glynn
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