"Brian Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: > > We're not going to do that in the installer, as it's a question too > > subtle for explanation there, and it isn't something that is absolutely > > necessary to get the system up and running. For OpenSolaris, we've > > chosen the default which makes the most sense for the most users, just > > as with every other default. The solution here is to fix the utilities. > > What is the strategy to "fix the utilities"? Will the GNU utilities be > modified to be supersets of their Solaris counterparts? What is the strategy
Linux distributions did decide not to go this way. The GNU userland on Linux does not support Linux features. I would guess this is because adding support for OS specific features would force the distributors to spend a lot of effort on re-adding those features in case the GNU upstream was updated. 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/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
