[Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Hofmann [mailto:whofmann at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 5:45 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris
> 
> 
> > I'm not anti-gnu, I'd just like to have the darn thing work.
> > I already have
> > many of these tools installed with Solaris, I'd like to use
> > them.  If I
> > wanted to use the GNU stuff, I'd be running Linux, not
> > Solaris.  It just
> 
> Personally, I run solaris because I think certain parts of it are far
> superior to Linux; the kernel being one of them.  Also, I 

Can you be more specific?  So far, the only thing that Solaris does better
than Linux is the filesystem, which is far better.  I'd like to know where
you see the Solaris kernel being superior to Linux.

> like the more
> logical, integrated, coherant "feel" of the OS--unlike Linux, 
> which feels
> "hacked together".  Aside from that, I think GNU's tools, 

Well, I will agree that Linux can feel "hacked together", but it's getting
much better.  RedHat has made a lot of progress with their latest release,
because of gnome.  If only GNOME wasn't completely different with every new
release, we might be able to have linux feel like a real desktop OS.

> being newer and
> including functionality that the origninal tools did not, are 
> in many ways
> superior to Solaris' standard, posix4, and ucb tools. :)  

How?  I'm a power user on Linux, but barely a normal user on Solaris right
now.  But I still don't see big differences in those tools, except that I
can't build SGMLTools with the versions that shipped with Solaris.  :)
	Greg