On Mon, January 5, 2009 00:07, Dave Uhring wrote: >> 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) > > Solaris has included bash for many years although it is not > the default shell. GNUtar was to be found as /usr/sfw/bin/gtar.
You're right about bash, I didn't have to install it, only find it. I believe there was also some scary verbiage saying I *really* shouldn't use bash for my root shell. Which now seems to be gone, and in fact I'm not aware of any big reasons to worry about bash as root shell. I did find gtar there, yes, even when I was a newly-virgin Solaris admin (I first had root on a Unix system on some SunOS boxes in the late 1980s, but after the early 90s my Unixing was all Linux until I built my fileserver on Solaris a couple of years ago, lured by the shiny! of ZFS, which given the changes to Solaris over the time between counts more as starting over than as a resumption). The freeware collection was decent, and useful, and not particularly hidden. I wanted to communicate (and praise) that I found the software complement in Osol-0811 more to my taste, more familiar, more what I expected a modern system to have available, than I did the older CE releases. -- 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
