Joerg Schilling wrote: > Glenn Lagasse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Please don't spread FUD. OpenSolaris ships with the exact same userland >> as Solaris Express (with some exceptions such as technologies which are >> being replaced, live upgrade for one). The only difference is the >> inclusion of GNU tools prepended to the default user's path. > > SXCE is OpenSolaris, so please let us use the term "Indiana" for a correct > comentlature.
"Indiana" was the name of the project, not the distro. The nomenclature agreed upon between the community and the trademark owner is that the distro created by the project team known as "Project Indiana" is "OpenSolaris" - other distros may be called "Based on OpenSolaris". (This was clearly not a unanimous decision, but decisions don't have to make everyone happy to be valid - otherwise democracy would fail as few candidates or ballot questions receive 100% of the votes.) This is documented in http://www.opensolaris.org/os/trademark/ Please let us move on from this past pain point, and not try to confuse people further. > AFAICT, Indiana by default comes with a PATH that has /usr/gnu/bin in front > of > the rest.... That is the default environment for the new user created by the OS installer. As always, users are free to change their $PATH to any set of tools they like, and shell scripts are encouraged to declare the paths to the tools they need so they are not broken by users with different $PATH settings. > In addition, the Bourne Shell was replaced by ksh93 and this has never been > tested in a production environment whether there are compatibility problems. Except for the last year and a half of OpenSolaris releases (2008.05, 2008.11, and 2009.06) that are testing exactly that? OpenSolaris has been used in several "production environments." -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
