I agree with 1 and 3, but not really with 2 and 4. Solaris has different versions of tools to maintain backwards compatibility (particularly with BSD-based SunOS) and comply with various standards. Linux distributions care very little about backwards compatibility and try to support POSIX to the whatever extent they feel worthwhile. If you don't like the bloat, you can safely get rid of redundant tools. As for software, Nexenta has most of the popular desktop apps. It can't compete with Fedora, Debian, or Gentoo, but it doesn't have to. Few Google distro users would need so much software.
The Linux community might be huge, but it's fragmented. System administration tips for Fedora won't necessarily be applicable to Gentoo, for example. Each distro has its quirks, and if you want to talk to a fellow Linux user that uses a different distribution, you might need to know their distro's quirks. I think Slackware is still on a 2.4 kernel by default and uses a BSD-style init, Fedora hasn't been shipping mp3 support because of patent restrictions, uses a bastardized GNOME KDE hybrid, and enables SELinux by default, Ubuntu likes to build absolutely everything in the kernel as modules, etc. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
