On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Peter Ross wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Of course with your (Peter) fbsd background, you are probably inured to the hardships of going without a GNU userland :-)
I don't miss much these days. And at least I have man pages instead of a HowTo with the most common options;-)
Solaris was never known for "the best userland ever" but it always had interesting features making it a worthwhile candidate.
Set up some zones, play with Crossbar architecture, have a well-integrated ZFS.. that's actually fun and makes up for a missing --never-need-that-anyway option. And if it becomes --well-may-be-handy, just install it. It's not that you can't do it.
Hell, if you really want, you can use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep, /usr/bin/grep, /bin/grep, /usr/local/bin/grep, /opt/swf/bin/grep, /opt/SUNW*/bin/grep, and /usr/gnu/bin/grep simultaneously just to make sure it works! :) Someone kill it already, dammit. There is no _valid_ reason to be bugwards combatible all the way back to 1948. -- Tim Connors