[geeks] Sun is developing a new LINUX desktop!!

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:27:41PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Obviously they should avoid making changes that would break Solaris 
> applications and even stuff that makes Solaris less Solaris-like, but 
> many if not most of the changes don't appear to be anywhere near that 
> fundamental. As an example, would it really cause that much pain if 
> /sbin/shutdown was a symlink to /etc/shutdown ?

Yes, it would.

Solaris has it's own standards, and I'd be fairly sure that would break
them.  Historically these standards have been loosly followed, but in
future releases things are going to be tied down even further.

  Scott.