Joerg Schilling wrote: > Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> One thing that may help is to prepend /usr/ucb to yout $PATH before >> /usr/bin. This will bring the Berkley UNIX flavor of many commands to >> the forefront. I think this will help because all the UNIX variants you >> list above (except Linux which isn't UNIX) are of the Berkley flavor - >> > > Be extremely careful if you _really_ plan to do this. It will create you an > environment where you cannot compile anymore. > Yep. I was talking about the interactive 'experience'. > The UCB variant of the commands did not make it into the standard and > recent software will not compile in a UCB environment. At source level, > Linux does not use the UCB flavor. > > >> Solaris 2 switched sun to the System V flavor by default, and left the >> berkley flavor in /usr/ucb, and added one or more POSIX flavors too. I >> > > This switch happened 18 years ago and it was also a result of the upcomming > POSIX standard (the first one has been approved in 1988). > > > >> I can understand where Linux being the newcomer (albeit more than 15 >> years old now,) seems to be the new and better way of doing things. >> How ever I've used several UNIX variants over the past 15+ years, and >> when you need to bounce between them often it's usually Linux that looks >> like the odd ball one doing things a different way. >> > > Where do you believe is Linux better than other UNIX? > I don't.
All I said was that I can see how others might arrive at that conclusion. > The strange observation with Linux is that e.g. the program "ifconfig" > on Linux has more deviations from the UNIX flavor than the program "ipconfig" > on MS-WIN. > > Yep. > >> Don't be. Sharing is how we all learn. I made this BSD to SVR4 switch >> back in '94-'95. It was rough for me too ( I bet going back would be >> even tougher for me now.) That was when I was just starting to leave >> > > I did it in 1992 and it was not a big change anyway. You basically have to > learn how to set up your login environment. > > Exactly. -Kyle > Jörg > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
