Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?
On the other side, GNU tar is unreliable. It is really unhelpful to Solaris when its advocates make inflammatory and incorrect statements like this. We agree that you have reported a bug. There is no bug-free software in the world. The immensely huge numbers of people who, like me, have been using GNU tools such as tar for many years without any problems hear things like this and are apt to conclude Solaris people are out of touch with reality. -T ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?
On Jan 17, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a signficant number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives. I've been using tar on linux since about 1996 and I've never had such a failure, nor have I ever heard of anyone having one. I'm not saying that it can't happen, I'm just saying that the experience of the community is that's an extremely reliable tool. Roughly at the same time as GNU tar introduced -z, star introduced auto-decompression. Why do you like to know about this detail if the tar implementation could to this for you automagically based on the compression header magic numbers? My fingers are used to typing tar -xzf and as long as I don't get any stupid error messages and the data is unpacked, I'm happy. -T ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?
On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: Hi, I totally agree. The BSD userland is not bad at all and I haven't heard any developers on the Mac OS X platform complain Well, as a long-time Linuxoid, when I started using a Mac I was fairly astounded how invisible the differences were. top is kind of dorky on the Mac, but aside from that I'm hard-put to think of anything that's day-to-day visible to a heavy bash user. Well, except for the filesystem being semi-case-insensitive, which gets you in the weirdest ways. Solaris classic, on the other hand, surprises me all the time. -T ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions
On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Why should I rename that exists in the public for a long time just because some uncooperative people reused the name? It's really irritating that ImageMagick grabbed command-line namespace this way. It's worse than you think, Jörg: convert and identify are also ImageMagick commands. The trouble is that they seem to have got away with it; for example, my blog-publishing system uses convert to wrangle pictures around, and it runs successfully on a huge number of different systems. There are a huge number of ImageMagick users; of the three command-line image wranglers (there are also gd, and the pbm family) it produces by far the best-quality graphics. So, it's reasonable to be irritated about this land-grab, but I'm afraid they have you outnumbered. -Tim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] The other side of Solaris
You can live there if you want: http://www.lifeatsolaris.com/ Hard to believe, but some are skeptical: http:// condohype.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/depreciation-at-meadows-gate/ We now return you to our previously-scheduled discussion of Open- Source operating systems. -T ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it
On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to apply. Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class of potential Solaris users to be confused and irritated and many of them will walk away. The choice seems obvious to me. -Tim ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
