> If anyone wants to give this a go (or has core knowledge in a particular 
> area), I'd certainly appreciate input on things like -

> Shells

a modern bash (3.x+) as default shell for new users would be great; 
typically our local sysadmins all immediately run bash right after login 
to get a shell with history, command completion, etc.  :)

[this is not a linuxism; osx doesn't use tcsh anymore either :)]

i'm not opposed to the current sh staying default for root; there's some 
utility in that (in that it gives some added backwards-compat for badly 
written installer scripts..), and no one should be logging in as root 
anyhow.

zsh in the build would be nice for people who have that particular kink.

> Userspace Utilities (compiler, archiving, editors, ...)

solaris seems to be doing pretty well on this front... except for tar.

sun probably needs a tar modernization project.  gnutar extensions plus 
POSIX acls plus whatever acl support is necessary for nfsv4 and ZFS acl 
support.  :-)

bundling a saner build of Amanda with opensolaris, rather than the pile of 
doody that's in SFW currently, would be the bees knees.


> Languages (C, Python, Perl, ...)

modern python please.  better support for people using either/or gcc and 
sunstudio on the same box, better conflict avoidance in compiler 
toolchains.


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