Hello Moinak, hope that you are well. > Since you are long-time Solaris users familiar with it's nuances, > how long > does it take you to flip your PATH so that /usr/bin is in the front > ? How > long will it take an OpenSolaris n00b to figure out it's nuances and > update > the PATH settings so that he can use the familiar GNU tools ? Would he > even care to do such a change if the operating env feels weird and > unfamiliar > right from the start ?
Well here we find the crux of the "problem" (if it exists). OpenSolaris is trying very hard to be a "get it, burn it, boot it" (GIBIBI (tm)) operating environment. What we have not really addressed is the necessity to *learn* something about UNIX (and *not* GNU; bcoz...) whilst they are experiencing OpenSolaris. This is key; and irreplaceable. If you learn UNIX (an interface thereto) and its utilities, then you can make a choice as to whether to move on to utility sets like those provided by GNU. Only in that way can you achieve a good grounding in "UNIX". If you start with using the GNU-style interface to utilities, then you are "lost" in terms of backwards-compatible understanding. Regards... Sean.
