Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:07 UTC, submitted by Moochman
"Sun's Ian Murdock gave a presentation about OpenSolaris at LugRadio Live this past weekend. He hopes to expose open source enthusiasts to unique Sun technologies by creating a cohesive distribution that will provide a complete environment that is adequate for day-to-day use. This will involve bringing together the Solaris operating system and a diverse assortment of open source community projects and "adding a package management system to hold all these pieces together," Murdock stated. The final release will take place in May and the distribution will adhere to a six-month release cycle, just like Fedora and Ubuntu."
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2006-01-12
Solaris believes in backward compatability, so they ship a whole range of "core utils" usually the first thing most people do is to change their default path generally to something like this:
PATH=/usr/bin/xpg6/bin:/usr/bin/xpg4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/uc b/bin
This will give you behaviour that's compliant with POSIX.1-2001 and SUSv3 (Unix 2003)
In Opensolaris there is now a /usr/gnu/bin folder so you could change your path to include that as first default location.
If for example you were some commercial company running a piece of software that was 17-18years old (last release) and had been built for a SysVR4 system then you could change your path to just:
PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin
This path supports a system that is SVID3 (SVR4) and XPG3 compliant.
It's all well explained at the following link:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/companion-discuss/2006-April/...