I'm upgrading my home fileserver, and decided to move to a more stable platform than the community edition I had been running. I find the install on Open Solaris 08-11 to be very nice, AND it includes from the start a number of things I had to go to some trouble to find and install before -- like bash (including for the root user), and emacs (in the default repository), and Gnu tar, and things like that -- things people from lots of backgrounds expect, and were complaining about being missing before, as I remember it. (It's been long enough I might be wrong about exact packages, I just remember I found a lot of what I think of as "outdated software" in the default distribution for my earlier install, and had to hunt around and find modern versions.)
It's still a bit strange to type "ping" and not see the responses, though (I look at the latency numbers in those). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
