OT: AIX/Solaris/Linux Re: [Open-graphics] IBM to support open hardware organisations?

[Dieter]

> >> Haven't they been already working on making AIX 100%
> >> Linux compatible?

What?  Add the Linux bugs to the AIX bugs?  :-)

> Ah... AIX 3.x used Bourne shell just like everyone else. Aix 4.1
> changed to ksh. Because (IIRC) the Unix (Or Posix) standards
> (Certainly at the time) say ksh is the default shell. Nte that Solaris
> is still broken in this respect. In fact solaris is I believe so
> broken with respect to the shell that you can't even change root to
> have ksh as the default

Does Solaris have /etc/shells?

> (You have to do 'exec ksh -o vi' even to get a
> half decent way to have a command line history.

A Linux system I telnet into refuses to honor emacs mode in
either .bash_profile or .bashrc.  Have to type "set -o emacs"
at the command prompt every time.

Even ftp has command line history these days.