On 2021-01-24 19:54, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
I just took Hipster, I think 2017.10, but here's "uname -a", to single user
mode.
SunOS Hipster 5.11 illumos-2727bb055f i86pc i386 i86pc
"ls /dev" was blisteringly quick. "/usr/bin/time ls /dev" reported 0.1
seconds.
On
% uname -a
SunOS OIDEV 5.11 illumos-f85f43ed9f i86pc i386 i86pc
% time ls -Cla /usr/include
0.013u 23.223s 0:23.23 100.0%
--Chris
System is a quad core HP Z400 at 2.9 GHz with I think 8 GB of DRAM. Monitor
is
1600x1200. I'm afraid I am old and *very* tired of the continual churn of
system
commands, so I shall not provide any more data unless someone provides
explicit
syntax. Why sysinfo(1m) was eliminated is beyond me. The traditional mantra
was
ease of discovery. It is now apparently complexity to make the creators look
"special".
The recent volume of traffic has been driving me nuts. When "What shell to
use?"
appeared I really began to despair. I shudder to think how many trees have
been
killed and electrons tortured on that topic. I have very low tolerance for
people
who don't do their homework and want others to do it for them.
I increasingly long for 4.1.1 when things still made sense. Now we have a
half
finished transition to God only knows what. I rather fear to the graveyard.
The vision of Unix I know has been replaced by an agglomeration of poorly
thought
out and even more poorly implemented "features". I fully appreciate why we
are in
this situation, but it breaks my heart. There was a day when I had xterms
open on
6 different systems, AIX, SunOS, IRIX, CLIX, Ultrix and HP-UX and I could
move
easily among them and maintained a vast array of FOSS on all of them. And
there
were many days when the list of systems was quite different. But all of
those are
long gone.
Grumble,
Reg
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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