> I've read somewhere, that opensolaris has a way to switch between the
> solaris userland tools to the gnu one with a simple action.
This capability is in Nexenta, and on OpenSolaris, the deafult userland tools
are GNU already.
> So that way I could use : ls ps grep awk from GNU instead of the one
> provided by Solaris or Opensolaris
>
> But I cannot retrieve this info. Does someone knows about this ?
Please defer from using GNU tools on SunOS because:
- GNU tools are broken by design
- GNU tools implement other tools inside of them, for example GNU tar with the
-z switch, which goes against one of the main principles of UNIX, which is
modularity
- if you are going to use SunOS (Solaris), which is a POSIX compliant, System V
Release 4 UNIX, you should invest the time to learn UNIX; with that knowledge,
you will be able to use all other System V compliant UNIXes as well as
GNU/Linux; the other way around, you will be stuck, exactly like you are now
- most of the GNU tools are not POSIX compliant
- most of the GNU tools are not System V compliant
- some of the GNU tools are severely broken (again, GNU tar not
writing/processing tar archives properly is an example of that)
- most of the GNU "fileutils" tools do not know how to deal with ZFS and ACLs
in Solaris properly (there are bugs filed against those issues for opensolaris.
And did I mention that using GNU tools is a really, really bad idea? You won't
learn UNIX, and you'll be stuck on non-standards compliant, half-cooked and
broken userland.
To recap:
if you understand System V UNIX, you automatically understand GNU/Linux, but
the other way around is not true (hence you wrote the e-mail I'm responding to
now).
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