On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, River Tarnell
<river.tarnell(a)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