> Pleeeze - GNU Tar is portable to everywhere that has GNU tar. > > For the purposes of this discussion, this includes ALL of the OS's > we are talking about: Solaris, OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Distros, > RHEL, Fedora and all the other Linux derivatives.
Now there's a LOGICAL argument! And the fact that it doesn't function correctly, let me guess: it happens so seldom, it just doesn't matter? > Leaving aside for the moment its bugs and the mental state of the > users who have - for better or for worse - decided to use it, the > fact remains that the transition between a Linux environment and > a Solaris environment is more difficult than it needs to be. > > We need to address that disconnect. Yes, we do. > There seems to be two migration paths that are possible: > > Have developers migrate from Linux to Solaris, or > Have developers migrate from Solaris to Linux. > > Which do you see happening - both short and long term? First one. Brute force. Solaris is cheaper, faster, better thought out, and has a strong community that knows the thing inside and out. > If what is happening differs from what you would prefer, > what needs to be done to bring the two into alignment? We need to educate the new users on how to use System V and whean them off of GNU. Linux users need to start asking questions. Real, nice technical questions. We meet in the middle. It should be a 50:50 effort. _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx_______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
