Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > >> >> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:01:12PM -0400, Jim Sandoz wrote: >>> a b wrote: >>>> Exactly. I have often wondered about this as well. What is the >>>> advantage of ripping out IPF to be on the bleeding edge? I'd really >>>> like to know. >>>> <snip> > <snip> >>> is sun's version "good enough" for production use? maybe for some. >>> is it optimal? no. >>> are there new, unfound bugs in the "latest" ipf? probably. >> >> Same reason the first thing anyone who deals with Solaris does is >> install the GNU utilities and completely ignore the Solaris utilities. ;) > > Phil, > I go one better than that -- I never install them in the first place. > I took the trouble to "tune" my Solaris 10 Jumpstart Profile so that > a lot of drek never gets installed, eg: > > cluster SUNWCsndm delete # sendmail > cluster SUNWCgcc delete # gnu C > cluster SUNWCnet delete # UUCP > cluster SUNWCown delete # openwindows > cluster SUNWCperl delete # Sun perl > package SUNWsfinf delete # GNU info pages > > and there's a lot of other clusters and packages I don't install either > (like mozilla, staroffice, CDE, GNOME, UUCP, evolution, Asian fonts). > I'm running servers -- not desktop platforms, so I don't need them.
No, I mean ls, ps, df, etc. -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freeware and Technical Pages Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
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