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Solaris on course to merge with Linux (ZDNet)
This ZDNet article
hints that Solaris will start to look more and more like Linux.
"Gingell's five-year plan for an intermarriage of the two operating
systems seems to be on an accelerated track. Solaris continues to take on
more API-level compatibility with Linux. In turn, Linux, through Sun's
participation in the Free Standards Group, will undoubtedly take on more of
the industrial strength attributes for which Solaris has long been
known."
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Solaris on course to merge with Linux (ZDNet) Posted Apr 11, 2003 0:25 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link] It looks to me like the article and Sun are talking about providing better support for Linux system calls in Solaris, and maybe some better support for glibc functions. Larry
Solaris on course to merge with Linux (ZDNet) Posted Apr 12, 2003 14:10 UTC (Sat) by ahornby (subscriber, #3366) [Link] Hmmm, but when will they ship bash as the default shell?...AFAIK the default solaris shell still doesn't respond to the cursor keys!
True Posted Apr 13, 2003 1:42 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] But bash is really bloated as far as memory usage and speed of executing startup scripts. I agree that any shell intended for interactive use should have a command history. I think most people who want a Bourne-ish shell on Solaris use ksh. /bin/sh is mostly for scripts.
True Posted Apr 14, 2003 22:52 UTC (Mon) by miallen (guest, #10195) [Link] So unlike your average Linux distro maybe /bin/sh should point to ksh rather than the bloated interactive shell. Actually can this be done on a Linux system or are there bash-isms in the init scripts?
True Posted Apr 19, 2003 2:42 UTC (Sat) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link] So unlike your average Linux distro maybe /bin/sh should point to ksh rather than the bloated interactive shell. Actually can this be done on a Linux system or are there bash-isms in the init scripts? Works fine in Debian. I and many other people use the NetBSD POSIX shell ash (recently forked by Debian as dash) as my /bin/sh. If any script in Debian uses bashisms and doesn't explicitly declare #!/bin/bash, file a bug. (I haven't seen any problems recently.)
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