[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 09:21 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with.  The part that
>>>> irked me was the this makes things more familiar for Ubuntu Linux users
>>>> (ir)rationale.
>>>
>>> I must have missed that part of the thread but sudo predates Linux by at
>>> least ten years; http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/history.html
>>>
>>
>> It's the same old Solaris admin versus Linux admin thingy. Any
>> shortcomings/non-existing feature in Solaris are ignored/brushed off and
>> anything remotely 'Linux' related gets put on the grill immediately.
>>
>> I can understand wanting to keep the same interfaces but making rabid
>> attacks on stuff that are additional just because they are the current Linux
>> practice is really irrational. Hence stuff like sudo is a Linux thing...
>
> path of least resistance.  the do it for me attitude, instead of do it
> for myself.
> Are studio compilers free?  Yep.  Do many people use them?  Nope, because
> they are different from gcc, and things gcc/g++ let you get away break with
> the studio compilers because those were written to standards, not the whim
> of a developer.   And fixing said source might mean I have to spend a little
> more time making it "Solaris" ready, and then I might have to fight with the
> upstream maintainers, oh my.
>
> I'm not shocked.  In the least.
>

Speaking of path of least resistance, I have stuck with 
OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana even though Nexenta was available and perhaps a 
bit more familiar (RH/Centos/Fedora was the Linux distro that I used to 
only use) because it is sun cc compiled. Even if it meant I would have 
to learn how to do things on OSOL.

I guess for some things, reality is reality. There goes uber-stability 
under load...