Re: Do SUN's compilers work on SchilliX?

From: * * * Y o u r . S h e p h e r d . A q u i l a . D e u s . ( d 2 0 0 (aquila.deus_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/27/05


Date: 27 Jun 2005 06:13:28 -0700

Mike Cox wrote:
> I'm really excited about the upcoming download of SchilliX that I'm about
> to undertake. SchilliX is less than 300 MB total from what I recall from
> visiting the FTP site. SchilliX will be the first unix distro that I can
> actually download in a long time. Linux is way too huge nowadays and BSD
> is pushing it too.
>
> I know SchilliX doesn't have network support yet, but can I get SUN's
> compilers from SUN (via the OpenSolaris Usage terms) and use them on
> SchilliX? Or does SchilliX have some stuff missing still that would
> prevent me from playing with the sun compilers? I want to dump GCC and
> use a proper compiler for OpenSolaris programs. I'm sick of the GCC
> bloat, the slowness and GCC non-standard additions. I'm ready for a speed
> increase in my CDDL programs.
>
> I hope SchilliX stays light unlike Linux which has become more bloated
> than Windows. That way people on slow DSL lines can download the small
> SchilliX distro and then use Joergs Schillings new package getter to get
> what they need!
>
> I think the base distro should include:
> PostgreSQL
> an X11 server
> Emacs and vim
> FireFox
> star
> cdrecord (the proper version).

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