As always, please send comments, suggestions, and problems to consultant . The main differences are in the background work done by the system administrators, but various features are evident to regular users. The most obvious examples are ps and ls. User shells are now bash.
Bash does everything ksh does, and more.
Even csh users can often convert to bash with ease, though csh fans will be pleased that we have a newer tcsh on Solaris. We've made a business decision not to support ksh as the default user shell. Bash is free software that works just fine and certainly better than the 1988 ksh. There is a System V ksh installed on the system. It lacks functions that were in our old, locally-modified ksh.