On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:57:48 PST
Tomas Bodzar <bodzart at openbsd.cz> wrote:
> Now about frustration :
>
> You're using Linux (Fedora). Ok. Then maybe you know situations when someone
> want similar functionality like in Windows and you maybe know what's the
> correct answer. If no then there is - This is a Linux, not a Windows. Don't
> expect that everything will be the same. Dot. It lead us to correct answer on
> your frustration - This is OpenSolaris, not Linux(Windows,MacOsX,BSD,...).
> Don't expect that everything will be the same. Dot.
>
> "Exotic" commands :
>
> Those exotic commands are there mostly for good reasons because no similar
> functionality in any other OS. (ZFS, Dtrace, SMF, LDoms, containers and so on)
Non-exotic commands: It's a Unix-based system that's had some Linux
cruft added. As such, the standard commands for finding information on
Linux or Unix both work fine: "man" and "info".
Be nice if "man -k" worked out of the box, but that seems to be the
norm for Linux-based systems as well.
<mike
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