On 11/25/05, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't call things optional that are needed to make > > UNIX homey > > to people.... > > Sorry, but I must say, what is too much is too much! > There is no reason gtar should be included when there is tar or star just for > the reason of catering to Linux crowd. > > Solaris is Solaris, if they came over to Solaris then they better learn > Solaris. Otherwise, they can stay with Linux and be "homey". > > If someone can't live without their GNU tools, soon enough they'll have the > pkgadd tools and they can add whatever they need from Blastwave. > > Maybe we should rename OpenSolaris to "OpenSolinux" so that the Linux crowd > would feel "more at home"?
I get tarballs all the time that require the non-standard GNU behavior to extract, and I would be annoyed if I had to install blastwave for something so trivial. And if the distribution is called GNU/Solaris, I would expect some basic GNU tools, yes; Linux has nothing to do with that. And wouldn't it be OpenSoHurd? :) > > Since approx. 1995 when bash became usable, things > > did change and > > it seems that there are people who like to see bash > > everywhere. > > Note that csh is just a nightmare compared to bash. > > I've been using tcsh since at least 1995 and possibly earlier, and even then > it had loads and loads of features that still trod bash into the ground today. > I don't know why you didn't know about it, but I can say it's not my fault... > I didn't know you existed back then! :) Lots of people prefer the various incarnations of Csh, and kudos to them, but the official posix shell is a variation on the Bourne shell, and bash can (in theory at least) emulate this posixly correct behavior. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
