On Feb 6, 2008 3:18 PM, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Someone had the guts to stand up against the ultraconservative > > 'backwards compatibility is our religion' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Opensolaris cannot afford such Bourne shell extravaganza anymore > > You don't run many mission critical workloads on the server side of things, > do you? > > This ain't dustin' crops, > oh-look-at-me-I-managed-to-install-Linux-on-my-desktop-PC-bucket type of a > deal. > > Solaris is an enterprise grade desktop AND server operating system, and as > such, it *must* be able to take abuse as both a desktop and a server > operating system. > > What OpenSolaris can't afford is to become like Linux. That would be a > catastrophe for those of us that bring food on the table and pay the bills, > thanks in no small part to Solaris. > > Those who are just interested in geeking-off have toys like PC-buckets and > Linux, and it would seem that they're much better staying in that sandbox. > Em, I wish those lots of fun building sand castles, too.
I'm not sure how ksh93 is making things like GNU/Linux. Oh, and as far as the enterprise argument, go talk to some of the enterprise sysadmins who post here; they hate that /bin/sh isn't anywhere near portable across systems. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
