On 8/7/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Ché Kristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > maybe where it makes sense to do so, perhaps when a user tries to run say
> > top we could spit out a url to a page explaining why tope is not there and
> > how Solaris/Indiana does it better
> > [snip]
>
> OK, I'll bite. I'm a Sun employee (and heavy user of Ubuntu) that is
> extremely disillusioned with everything I have seen that Open Solaris
> has done so far.
>
> I tried Solaris Developer Express (several iterations). I really
> tried. I can deal with the fact that it didn't know about my laptop's
> wireless hardware (Ubuntu didn't either until Fiesty). But I can't
> deal with the historical Solaris legacy that comes with /bin/sh being
> Bourne shell, and associated atrocities.
I hope Indiana is going to move /bin/sh from old bourne to ksh93. The
bourne shell is a pain in the ass and needs to be killed. Indiana
won't be able to compete with Linux without a better /bin/sh shell.
Chris
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