On 7/15/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: > For the past month or so, I've been exploring the delights of pkgbuild > on opensolaris. This is possibly the best answer we have right now to > apt-get or emerge. Just as an example: I compiled, installed Wine and > played RoadRash on solaris - It took about 3 commands and worked flawlessly. > > The SFE repository currently has ~200 spec files ranging from Admin > Tools to games. And considering that the debian/stable has 20000+ > packages, we have long way to go ! Not to mention tools like apt-get, > dpkg and synaptic. >
The total now is 2online & 2offline confirmations. With good enough participation, we should be able to target softwares beyond the current Belenix list ! Debian/stable has 20,000+ packages. ( I have put a comma for people to get the number of zeroes right :-) > If you have been complaining that your favorite BitTorrent client or > Media Player doesn't work on solaris, join the hackathon. Maybe we will > even port OpenArena and have a round of fragfest in between. W00t ! > I am not a big gamer but I have grown to like Quake-III. Gaming will be on the agenda ! -Shiv
