Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
The community decided that no distro should not be called "OpenSolaris". A copyright holder may respect the community or may not..... Regardless of the legal rights, calling a distro "OpenSolaris" just creates unneeded confusion - but this was already discussed ad nauseum. > > 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. Is is not a wise decision to introduce a default that is responsible for making people unable to use ACLs or to create conformant tar archives. Well, this has been mentioned many times before and much more than a year did pass and there is still no solution for the problem. > > 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." What does this prove? 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]
