[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-19 Thread Jake Hamby
The CBE we use for JDS internally is based on the pkgbuild (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/) tool that Laca (aka Laszlo Peter, who produced pkgbuild and is also our main RE person in the JDS group in Sun). These tools work off rpm type .spec files (actually is possible to share these

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Jake Hamby
I know this topic can easily lead to a flame war, but I don't think my message has the potential to start one. You see, I also told what I like on Gnome, that KDE isn't perfect, and that I prefer KDE. But I accept people who don't like it (flavours are different). I am really serious about

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Jake Hamby
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: Chris Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Initially performance, now licensing. GNU tar was used by FreeBSD up until recently. libarchive was written to speed up the FreeBSD pkg* tools, and then it was realized that it could be extended to a

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Jake Hamby
Danek Duvall wrote: I vote for changing the default shell to a better one. Ah, but then the question is, which one. You might choose ksh over bash for various reasons, others might prefer tcsh, and some of us know that zsh is the One True Shell. If nothing else, the bourne shell is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-14 Thread Jake Hamby
Jörg Schilling wrote: The main features of GNU tar is compliance problems. I recommend to avoid GNU tar whereever possible. You cannot replace /usr/bin/tar with a program that does not implement the features os /usr/bin/tar without creating hard to track down problems. You're right. At