[MPlayer-users] Solaris 10: /bin/sh != /bin/bash, and more

[Thomas Maier-Komor]

Nico Sabbi schrieb:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 11:33:37 Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>> Matus UHLAR - fantomas schrieb:
>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Maier-Komor
>>>>
>>>> <thomas at maier-komor.de> wrote:
>>>>> I only did a quick search in the archives with the keyword
>>>>> 'Solaris'. If I had searched for SunOS, I'd have found those
>>>>> articles... So, sorry for the noise.
>>> On 19.05.09 08:27, Mike Castle wrote:
>>>> Sun and their crazy naming scheme.
>>> You mean, Oracle? ;-)
>> I thought the name Solaris came up a little bit before Oracle took
>> over Sun... BTW: I didn't know the takeover has even completed yet.
>>
>>> Solaris was initially a bundle of SunOS, OpenWindows and
>>> OpenNetworkCopmuting ...
>> Yes. And now the SunOS part is called ON (OS/Net consolidation) on
>> opensolaris.org.
>>
>> But much worse is the naming scheme of the compiler suite. Although
>> it seems to have stabilized to "Sun Studio".
>>
>> But with the Oracle takeover we can expects all names to change
>> once again. But who cares, as long as Solaris stays open source and
>> the most innovative platform.
>>
>> - Thomas
> 
> if it only were 10% as stable as it is innovative, rathen 
> than "selling" new stuff as stable (ZFS first and foremost) and if it 
> only weren't distributed in such a manner as to be still compatible 
> with trilobites command line, and if it weren't sooooooooooo much 
> messy as to make you wish to to use something else.
> And if it finally integrated virtual consoles in ON... how can they 
> distribute a Unix without virtual consoles??????????
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Concerning stability, I really don't know if we are talking about the
same system. Solaris has always been rock stable for me - not only
concerning runtime behavior, but also concerning config files and
upgrade procedures.

ZFS hasn't let me down once, which I can't say of other filesystems. It
didn't start with the best performance, but it has improved from release
to release, and already has features in place which are years ahead over
anything else that is planned by competitors.

Virtual consoles? At first I lacked them, too. But once you had a
machine with a serial connection as a console, I used screen as a
virtual console replacement.

But endless backward compatibility you are right. /bin/sh is really
outdated. But one can always start one's favorite shell after 'su -' or
use pfexec instead, which is of course preferable and sidesteps /bin/sh.

- Thomas