Wish list [was: Social Meeting this Thursday, 8th June @ The Founders Arms]

Sue Spence virtualsue at pennine.com
Thu Jun 8 21:10:24 BST 2006


David Alban wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'd quite like to see Debian package management on OpenBSD or Solaris.
> 
> I'd like to see solaris ship with vim as part of the core os, at least
> in addition to, if not as a replacement for, vi.  solaris vi is as
> dumb as a united states president.  And it wouldn't suck too badly if
> they made /bin/sh a link to bash, or some posix-aware version of sh.
> Oh, and screen, as part of the core os, would be nice, too.
> 

I vehemently protest this horrendous slur on traditional (classic) vi.

I had a quick look at solaris 10 before I shut down my ultra 5 for the 
last time last year, and it looked very much as though it had morphed 
fairly completely into linux.







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