On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The earlier versions of Solaris seemed to me like a primitive Linux<br>
distro; the standard base utilities (even as basic as "ls" and "grep")<br> sort-of worked but didn't have all the features i expect.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's because Sun writes their own versions and doesn't leverage the great utilities from the GNU project.</div>
<div>Don't know why.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Most system administration seemed standard Unix but the package management was<br>
light-years behind Linux.</blockquote><div>No kidding. I was a Solaris admin for a few years and when I started using apt I was blown away.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Usually if i install a large collection of GNU ports from Sunfreeware<br>
then the system is sane enough that it isn't *too* difficult to work<br> with... </blockquote><div> That's the typical way of handling Solaris. There is also the CSW stuff from <a href="http://blastwave.org">blastwave.org</a>. They provide an apt-inspired package managed system for Solaris.</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Jerry<br>