Re: Is Solaris 10 a good home os?

abuse@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Half (most?) applications you have on suse are not on Solaris
DVD. Some may be found on sunfreeware, a few may be compiled
from source.

*Most* can be compiled from source and even packaged as SYSV packages if
you are pedantic. :-)

Of course, you must set up proper CC, CFLAGS, LD_OPTIONS, CPPFLAGS, you
must know some tricks like -Du_intXX_t=uintXX_t etc ...

And don't ever run "hostname -s" or "killall foo" as root.

Why not? He can learn something in that way. :-)

My favourite was "young" Network/cisco admin who followed my
instructions on the phone to set up some static routes on Solaris. After
we are finished, he told me: "Something is really bad here! Looks like
you have hardware memory issues on this machine!"

Of course, after he was finished with route add ... he typed "write mem" :-)


--
Man is something that shall be overcome.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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