2009/8/12 Ignacio Marambio Catán <[email protected]>:
> people keep saying there are few changes, but nonne said which are those
> i can name only a few
>
> -/bin/sh is no longer solaris' sh
> -/bin/ksh is now ksh93
> -the default shell for users is now bash (I'm not sure about this one)

If so, then an profile/privilege aware bash needs to be high on the
list of things to be added. Shipping with replacements that do not
support core functionality as the new defaults is generally not a good
idea.

> -the default PATH now includes the gnu tools on top (please, please,
> we need a switch in the installer for this, we cannot have a set of
> tools that do not support zfs acls and zfs)

Agreed.

[...]

> -LU is now dead

I hadn't heard this. Is this just a temporary issue due to IPS not
supporting it? Or is this actually on the longterm roadmap? If so,
what is the intended replacement for this functionality?

[...]

> -jumpstart is dead
> -no text based installer

Both of these are very bad, and will prevent me from using OpenSolaris
on any of my machines as none of them have a framebuffer/video
card/keyboard/mouse and are all installed over the network.

[...]

fpsm
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