Hi at all, I'm really impressed by the discussion about ksh. But I dont get the point.
Some basic logic says to me that something that's not available does not exist. So if there is no source for ksh88 it's not a good point to talk about it in an environment that talks about open source. It's a discussion about an "unix shell" - nothing that's really unique. I've seen notes about ARC and so on. Does it matter about something that does not exist? ARC is interesting for something that does not exist - but usually not for ancient or outdated technology. And something that did not find the way to open source is (in this special case) a thing that will be obsoleted by history - since obviously it was not important enough to become open sourced. Just count the users of unix shells and you will see that eg. bash has more users than ksh88. A good point is where people make more money. But I want to see it first. It's btw my impression that (Open)Solaris-people talk a lot about stability and do forget to do a step forward. Solaris is not the best piece of technology if I need a compressing file system: Linux ist better at that point. I have the choice out of at least 5 there. On Solaris I even did not find a way to mount a ext2fs partition... (well using nfs and mount it on another machine was no problem.) Did anyone try a Kanotix and found it's usefulness in a real world? I have the wish that this kind of usefulness will be possible with OpenSolaris too. OpenSolaris is young (or better new to "open source") and only a base system - there is no need to block future with discussions about things like "unix shells". ksh is really only an example - but this kind of "problem" has a structure. -Helmar This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
