On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:39, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> SunOS has a long history of providing many flavors of commands. No one will >> object to adding a few. However, changing the behavior of commands that have >> been around for 20+ years really doesn't make any sense. Many of these are > > But that is exactly the problem with these commands: they are too old and > outdated. In many respects this was the main problem of Solaris: it was > not moving fast enough.
I fail to see the benefit of changing well-known behaviour in an incompatible way. Change for the sake of change may be chique for fashion items, but not necessarily a good thing in a server-grade OS. Michael -- regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen Michael Schuster _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
