Roland Mainz wrote:
> I am not sure whether Henk was thinking about a whole new Solaris
> distribution or just a distribution which consists of some add-on
> packages... I assume the 2nd option applies here... Henk ?

Just the libraries - no... But we could create an operating
environment based on the ast version of several "standard"
unix utilities.   This would be a nice minimal setup for use
within a zone.

I think the ast set of utilites are probably one of the few
cross-platform utilities available, except for gnu.  I also
believe they're more self-consistent than the gnu binutils,
being tightly integrated with the ast libraries.

I see that David has just summarised the additional advantage of
having the option to integrate many of these utilities with ksh93.

We would never get away with replacing *all* basic bin-utils in
Solaris, which is why I was thinking about branded zones.

But this is relatively off-topic for this forum I guess.

Cheers,
Henk

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