On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, River Tarnell river.tarnell@wikimedia.de wrote:
So: if the Linux login server were to go away tomorrow, what (if anything) would you miss?
A few things come to mind right away.
1) An easy-to-use compilation environment for C and C++. I am not really able to compile Perl modules on willow, despite spending quite a while hacking at it.
2) The version of script(1) that comes with solaris doesn't recognize the -f option like GNU one. This I did fix for myself, by downloading the source from opensolaris, changing it, and compiling. But I doubt that will be a popular option. In general, people who have only used linux might be more comfortable if you put more of the linux command line utilities somewhere, at least the ones that are not linux-specific
3) On the linux server, /bin/sh is bash. On the solaris servers, it isn't. Again, this is easy to work around for experienced people and painful for others. It would be a compatibility issue if scripts are moved from linux to solaris.
- Carl