--- Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Seems like lots of people are bitching and moaning
> about this.
> 
> I for one am all for this. (It seemed at times I was
> the only one for
> it at times).

Well, I cringe at the make Solaris a better linux than
linux part.

> 
> The fact of the matter is that most of the gnu/Linux
> command
> equivalents are, for the most part, more feature
> rich and easier to
> use.

Easier? You mean more convenient.

> 
>  Would you rather spend your time maintaining a
> system, or would you
> rather have a feature rich system that has a large
> number of building
> blocks included out of the box?

ROTFL. I have not had any Solaris administration in a
data centre environment but I doubt there will be much
of a difference between the two.

> 
> I prefer the second, and that is the Linux approach.
> Solaris has much
> room for improvement in the "out of box" usefulness
> category. We are
> talking 15000+ packages in the Ubuntu universe, all
> the can be
> installed over the network with apt-get. We have a
> long way to go
> before we catch up.

Debian approach to packaging. Not Linux approach. Now
this I agree.

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