Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:58:46 -0500 (EST) | | From | Dave Wreski <> | | Subject | Re: New Solaris 7 features |
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> The resources Sun allocates to do miscellaneous tool support pretty > much just suck. Solaris "patch", for instance, can't handle slashes > in filenames, and IIRC can't even handle patches to multiple different > files; their diff is incapable of applying any sort of patch. Why > didn't they just snag Larry Wall's patch and GNU diffutils?
Not to mention the first thing any competent administrator does is download gzip and bash. I also understand their LDAP, improved FTP server, SKIP, and news servers are add-ons, as is their Windows support, on top of the $700 server OS price.
Dave
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