[PLUG] This article on BSD...

[Charlie Schluting]

On 1/26/07 12:09 PM, Wil Cooley wrote:
> 
> And I'm peevish, so let's roll.

I don't like to disagree with you, Wil, but I must correct some things :)

> Because userland is important.  I spend most of my life working with
> userland, not a kernel directly.  If I'm managing or developing on a
> system, I want GNU software, period.  There are few things I hate as
> much as being stuck in ksh and having to use standard vi.

Vim comes with Solaris 10 now, if you must have it. Bash/csh/tcsh has
for years.

> But it's not just GNU software--there are certain basic facilities that
> are missing or stupid.  Oftentimes trivial stuff, like managing symlinks
> in /etc/rc.d/rcN.d (or the lovely Solaris standard, hardlinks).  

Ok, I'll just focus on Solaris, because you know more about AIX than I do :)
SMF in Solaris 10.. there's no more rc.* scripts.

> And the ability to find what ports are open by what processes?  Not
> without a third party tool 

lsof exists in S10 now I think(??), but there was always the p-utils.
(pfiles, etc)


> Yes, Linux's automounter sucks too; I'll give you that. 

Thanks for bringing it up. Yes, it does :)

> But Solaris lacks software
> RAID and LVM support that can actually be used with the basic system
> filesystem.

What?! This is mainly why I responded again...
Solaris has had SVM for a long time, which is functionally equivalent to
LVM. I feel it's easier to manage, but opinions vary. More to the point,
Linux can't do filesystem snapshots!
(Of course: ZFS++ but we're talking about something different here)

Cheers!
 -why_did_I_have_to_start_an_OS_discussion?_Charlie