Re: Is Solaris 10 a good home os?

On 2007-04-08, Miroslav Zubcic <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 ...

Come back to me when you build the current version of Cyrus-IMAP
(for example) with -xtarget=opteron -xarch=amd64 (or is the other
way around). Pkgmk/pkgtrans is optional, that I can do myself.


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

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

Speaking of which, I distinctly remember killall ignoring its
argument(s). It appears, that isn't the case anymore -- anyone
knows when that changed? Or was it some other Unix? Just curious.

Dima

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