On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:32 AM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris >> and switch to Linux? > > Of course not! > >> Or keep Solaris, but kill ZFS and switch to ext2fs? > > Of course not! > >> Where's your line for where Sun should be different >> and where it should >> just use what others use? > > Anywhere where using the same tool and mechanism for multiple UNIX flavors > makes sense.
AT&T, SCO, Novell, and X/open group all for you on line one.... Linux, which is the main place for sudo [ab]use, is not a flavor of UNIX, nor would I expect someone who claims to be a "UNIX admin" to claim so > Let's be realistic: investing time in automating and engineering an RBAC > solution does me no good if I also have AIX and HP-UX to worry about. The IT > industry doesn't only consist of Solaris, there are still other UNIXes > deployed and pah-lenty of them. HINT: they don't use sudo either > While I fully understand that, from where Sun engineers sit, it might be > difficult to visualize an environment that is not all Solaris based, a good > judgment call is needed, and I would think that the best engineers in the > industry would be capable of making one. > > Or have I grossly overestimated you (plural)? > > Imagine what the industry would look like, the administration nightmare that > would have ensued, if every UNIX vendor had implemented their own NFS > equivalent? And that is just a trivial example... They did, for the most part. > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
