> And in that OpenSolaris fails miserably Perhaps it fails miserably for your needs, but not for mine. I'm one of the much-reviled Linux nubs who decided to take a closer look at OpenSolaris. Hi.
I don't particularly care about the different behaviour of utilities in Solaris -- glancing at a man page for switches is no big deal -- but I do care that third-party utilities and libraries work. Many of them assume a Linux environment, so once you leave the GNU utilities and glibc behind, things get rocky. Making the userland behave more like Linux makes a transition more likely. Please remember that the OS is just a platform to build things upon. If it decides to beat its own path from the mainstream, that makes it less attractive due to the sheer inertia of utility/library/application availability that the mainstream has. I also have a graybeard sysadmin colleague who froths against Solaris. I have noticed, however, that all his rants have to do the command-line. Remove those, and I suspect he'd suddenly be a bit more mellow. I'm trying to convince him to give Solaris another spin, and given his continuous problems with Linux's LVM and RAID, it might even happen. So, I understand you don't like the direction things are going. That's okay. But "fails miserably" it does not. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
