Wednesday November 19, 2008 Holy Cr@po!a Batman, is that /bin/sudo I see in OpenSolaris nowadays???
Sometimes I get frustrated, just like many others, at how slow Sun is to change. One example is how Sun has dug their heels in towards sudo opposed to their implementation of roles based access. I mean this in regard to having root access to manage a system.
I'm ok with either one, but the majority of open source systems use sudo, and in the case of rbac/pfexec, it makes OpenSolaris different.
This type of change is monumental at Sun, IMO, and recently there has been more and more of it. It's not as if OpenSolaris has embraced sudo, RBAC is still in place and nothing has changed in that regard. But changes do seem inevitable, for everyone, and for better or worse it's good to see OpenSolaris changing/morphing into the systems that it will end up being.
I would venture to say that with IPS, zfs, and snapshots, OpenSolaris is standing up to be a great platform, the "New Solaris", and change is inevitable.
This new concept of managing our systems seems to be the nexus of it all...
Yeah, as any evolution, there's some rough edges...but things are getting smoother all the time and OpenSolaris has gotten a lot more comfortable for me to develop on.
It is time to let go of the past, and embrace the future. OpenSolaris has really started to turn into a commendable system, IMO.