David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens to me every time I turn around on Solaris these days is > that tools I'm used to using are missing key features that I use every > day. Tar is missing the 'z' option, date is missing all sorts of
Linux has no tar but GNU tar and GNU tar is not standard compliant. The 'z' options is irrelevent compared to the problems you get from using GNU tar. > options (can't do conversions on dates specified on the command line), You are talking about non-standard "extensions". If you find anything you are missing in this document: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/date.html make a bug report...the same applies to "touch". > touch is missing options I think. And ps has just totally different > options, in a different syntax (to get roughly the listing I want every > time, I need to type "ps -ef" instead of "ps ax" I think). And when I You should read the documentation on Linux - wait, Linux does not have complete anough man pages... - ps on Linux also supports the standard compliant options. You are not forced to use the non-standard behavior on Linux. > try to find anything in the documentation, I mostly can't (or they > describe three ways of doing things but don't explain why one would > choose one over another). And of course there's far, far less > information on the web that I can find to help me out when I have these > problems. While the man pages in Solaris are pretty complete, the documentation on Linux is definitely worse. Well, I am speaking about "man" (not "info") as man is the standard and "info" is just a non standard extension. > For me, I'd be *immensely* better off running Linux with a good ZFS > port, if one existed. I probably also wouldn't have had to wait over a > year to get all 6 motherboard SATA ports supported, and I *still* > haven't dared try again to see if the hot-swap I paid so much for is now > actually supported. I recently bought a Dell PC without checking the Chipset first and everything, including SATA, works. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
