Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Jul 2009 19:16 UTC
The Linux desktop has come a long way. It's a fully usable, stable, and secure operating system that can be used quite easily by the masses. Not too long ago, Sun figured they could do the same by starting Project Indiana, which is supposed to deliver a complete distribution of OpenSolaris in a manner similar to GNU/Linux. After using the latest version for a while, I'm wondering: why?
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The information in the "Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad" link is old, but it has become acceptable practice among administrators I know:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
It also would not entirely surprise me that Sun would potentially drop a feature that is useful.
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2005-07-08
Since when was crle deprecated? It is my understanding that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad for security reasons.
Yes I can get Nagios and OpenLDAP from a number of places, I compile applications with particular options that most repositories do not. The version of Nagios on Blastwave is 2.10, the last version I compiled successfully was 3.06. And OpenLDAP has been a pain in rear forever.