...But if Indiana wants to lure Linux folks to Solaris, it needs to offer tools that are familiar. I cut my teeth as a Windows 3.0 developer, but I came to Linux via Mac OS X. What was true in OS X (BSD) was true, for the most part, in Linux. Migration was easy and it was a win-win for me. I keep coming back to Solaris (Indiana, SolarisExpress, Belenix, Nexenta) because of stability (tho I have no problem with the Linux kernel), performance, etc... But what continues to baffle me (a mere mortal) is the administration of it. (and general tools). From my perspective, gnu tools (by default) are a big plus, with the promise of learning Solaris tools as I become a super user.
-Bryan John Sonnenschein wrote: > On 14-Jan-08, at 10:45 PM, Josh Lange wrote: > >> I've found many of the sun tools to be out of date, and far less >> functional than their gnu counterparts. >> >> I personally want to use Solaris for its stability. I've found the >> linux kernel a little immature, and prone to panics, and deadlocks, >> and random issues, especially when dealing with network protocols/ >> network file systems/raid, and a few other categories. >> >> What has historically held me off of Solaris was what I considered a >> poor userland (and not to mention, package manager), and I'm happy >> to see Indiana taking steps to fix these categories. >> >> Josh >> > > Then continue to use the canonical Indiana or click the "GNU" option > on the installer if they actually let us put options in the installer. > > I'm not trying to force my view on everyone, I'm trying to find an > acceptable solution to the GNU problem for the rest of us. > > You consider the standards compliant tools to be a poor userland > because they're older, I consider scripts that break because the bash > people decided to break compatibility across versions to be a poor > userland. To each their own. > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
