Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Abram Olson wrote: > >> I've been trying to run the sun updater for about 30 minutes now and >> it's just sitting there doing nothing. There is very little network >> activity but both cpu's in the machine are making very nice sine wave >> pattern as they move from 0 to 100% usage and back. Is this normal? > > Solaris is based on packages and it seems that removing/adding a > package is rather slow and quite exhaustive. Much slower than typical > Linux package managers. Probably that is what it is doing. The process ran for almost two hours last night with no results. When I right click on the icon it says "this system is not registered for updates" and when I choose "register this system for updates" the updater opens and then it just hangs and uses a lot of cpu cycles. I let it run for about an hour this morning but nothing happened.
> >> My big question though is, software management. How do I find out >> whats installed on the system? How do I install new software? I've > > Use 'pkginfo' to see what packages are installed. Usually 'pkgadd' is > used to add a package. But some software may be installed via other > means. > Great! This will help a lot. Thank you very much. Abe >> I've installed solaris off and on over the years since version 8. I >> owned an ultra 80 for a few years as well (although I mostly used >> linux on it) and I'm really impressed with how far solaris has come. >> Thanks for your time and keep up the excellent work. > > The interesting thing is that Linux is trying to catch up to Solaris > from a core-OS standpoint while Solaris is trying to catch up to Linux > from a desktop usability standpoint. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ >
