On the other side, GNU tar is unreliable.
It is really unhelpful to Solaris when its advocates make inflammatory
and incorrect statements like this. We agree that you have reported a
bug. There is no bug-free software in the world. The immensely huge
numbers of people who, like me,
On Jan 17, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a
signficant
number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives.
I've been using tar on linux since about 1996 and I've never had such
a failure, nor have I ever heard
On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote:
Hi,
I totally agree. The BSD userland is not bad at all and I haven't
heard any developers on the Mac OS X platform complain
Well, as a long-time Linuxoid, when I started using a Mac I
was fairly astounded how invisible the
On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Why should I rename that exists in the public for a long time just
because
some uncooperative people reused the name?
It's really irritating that ImageMagick grabbed command-line namespace
this way. It's worse than you think, Jörg:
You can live there if you want: http://www.lifeatsolaris.com/
Hard to believe, but some are skeptical: http://
condohype.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/depreciation-at-meadows-gate/
We now return you to our previously-scheduled discussion of Open-
Source operating systems.
-T
On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to
apply.
Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class
of potential Solaris users to be confused and irritated and many of
them will walk away.
The
