Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 19th Aug 2008 14:44 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences to a typical Linux distro.
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RE: Question on the image file
by kaiwai on Tue 19th Aug 2008 22:37
in reply to "Question on the image file"
Member since:2005-07-06
One of the images in the article poses the question:
Is there really a need to have 'SUNW' before everything?
Actually, yes there is. The SUNW before everything used to be Sun's stock symbol before they switched it to JAVA.
It's a common practice for the name of the package to start with the companies stock symbol so an admin will at least have some idea where the package came from.
Is there really a need to have 'SUNW' before everything?
Actually, yes there is. The SUNW before everything used to be Sun's stock symbol before they switched it to JAVA.
It's a common practice for the name of the package to start with the companies stock symbol so an admin will at least have some idea where the package came from.
yes it is necessary as it denotes the provider of the package; that is no different, for example, to the package of Firefox on the Mozilla ftp server, it is prefixed MOZ as on example. I certainly don't see anything wrong with it - its hardly something that is so bad that it'll make someone never want to use it.
Member since:
2007-04-28
One of the images in the article poses the question:
Is there really a need to have 'SUNW' before everything?
Actually, yes there is. The SUNW before everything used to be Sun's stock symbol before they switched it to JAVA.
It's a common practice for the name of the package to start with the companies stock symbol so an admin will at least have some idea where the package came from.
alan