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

[Wes Hofmann]

Sorry, didn't mean to jump on my soapbox with my last email. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Gregory Leblanc
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 7:41 AM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris
> 
> 
> > -----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
> 
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