"Peter C. Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:14:14PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > The problem is that the creators of the Linux distributions
> > keep their users uninformed.
> >
> > They don't know that the command line features they see are features
> > from bash.
> >
> > ... and they don't know that Linux does not come with tar but with GNU tar.
> >
> > It's not Solaris that created the ignorance of the Linux users that
> > cry for "Linux compatibility.
> >
> > Solaris users and Sun however need to inform people.....
>
> Maybe something like "you want solaris so you can feel the pain,
> b***h!" Makes for a snappy marketing campaign.
Well, it seems that you don't know enough about the problems...
Do you really believe Solaris should e.g. adopt to the broken GNU tar
just because Linux uses it and people on Linux create non-conforming
archives?
If people are informed ybout _why_ they have problems, they won't cry
Solaris is bad.
Jörg
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