Christine Tran wrote: >> There was a very long discussion about this a couple of weeks ago on >> one of the lists. Apparently the decision was made to put the GNU >> utilities in default system wide path before the native Sun utilities >> in order to make it easier to attract Linux users by making the >> environment more familiar to them. It was apparently assumed that >> longtime Solaris users would quickly and easily figure out what the >> problem was and adjust the PATH to their liking. >> > > Well, it's OpenSOLARIS, comes with nice OpenSOLARIS goodies. Oooh ZFS > ACL! <rub hands together> Goody! chmod A+user... <gets slapped> ls > -V <gets slapped> OpenSOLARIS sucks! > > It's a quibble, but the way things are, it pleases no one, I don't > think the casual Linux user moseying over to OpenSolaris would like > the scenario above.
As a previous long-time linux user who came over for ZFS, I totally agree. I much preferred to learn the solaris way and do things right than try and think it was still linux. Now I'm comfortable working on both despite their differences, and I'm sure I can perform tasks a lot better for it. Matt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
