Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-30 Thread Jedi Tek’Unum
> On Jan 29, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Judah Richardson > wrote: > Modern software aims to serve the user as opposed to making the user suffer > through some kind of "sacred" learning experience while developers remain > intransigent to their needs. Shockingly, it turns out that the people who > pay fo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-30 Thread Jedi Tek’Unum
> On Jan 29, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Judah Richardson > wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:46 PM Jedi Tek’Unum wrote: > >> I thank the universe every day that I no longer have to polish turds that >> day. >> > Observe, adapt, conquer. I’ve been retired from the war efforts for awhile now and that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:50 PM Lou Picciano wrote: > Reg, > > As a guy partly responsible (apologies!) for the list being generally > pretty quiet, the only contribution I can make to this at the moment is: > > Reg, You Da Man! > > (written from only a few miles from that Bell Labs you so right

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Lou Picciano
Reg, As a guy partly responsible (apologies!) for the list being generally pretty quiet, the only contribution I can make to this at the moment is: Reg, You Da Man! (written from only a few miles from that Bell Labs you so rightly mentioned…) Lou Picciano > On Jan 29, 2021, at 4:47 PM, Regi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I have been ignoring this torrent of BS as patiently as I can, but I'm really getting tired of it. First of all, computing has a 75 year old history. There have been many false starts and mistakes along the way. The failure of the new arrivals to learn from the past results in the same mistak

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Judah Richardson
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:46 PM Jedi Tek’Unum wrote: > EVERY OS in existence is getting really long in the tooth (outdated) The irony of this is we're on the discussion list of an OS distribution whose fundamental underpinnings are decades old and that is the continuation of a legacy OS. and fo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Rennie Allen
QNX is so far ahead of any other operating system, the fact that it hasn't changed yet n the last 20 years is basically a good thing as it has finally stabilised (after having had two completely breaking rewrites from scratch in the prior 20 years). Only now are operating systems like fuchsia and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Jedi Tek’Unum
EVERY OS in existence is getting really long in the tooth (outdated) and for the most part hasn’t innovated in a very long time. Ideally they would ALL be replaced. I’m not comparing “Linux” (the hoard of many each slightly different) to Illumos or derivatives specifically. My comment was purel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-28 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-28 19:31, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote: Anyone here seems to be hated Linux too much. Does it because their bad past experience with it or simply because Linux is success and we are loser and the natural law of the loser hate the winner? OK since this rant is person

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-28 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
The arrangement of the source tree is quite similar to other System V lineage Unix systems (in the relevant way, starting with SVR3, which had support for multiple filesystems). It's all down to what you're used to. Set up locate, or just use "find" to make and save a list of all the files, and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-28 Thread Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss
Anyone here seems to be hated Linux too much. Does it because their bad past experience with it or simply because Linux is success and we are loser and the natural law of the loser hate the winner? Someone used to said Linux is a cesspool because it's only a kernel and hacked together to create