On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:08 +0000, Roman Duka wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:40:20 -0800 > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: > > > OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your > > > favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer > > > precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. > > > Also Solaris native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc. > > > > Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye > > candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option > > besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages > > avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And > > number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything > > latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages > > compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is > > platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, > > Darwin and now SunOS). > > > > Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new > > version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets > > updated to the latest. > > > > Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org > > > > Does this mean I have to install Nexenta, or I could keep on running Sun's > Solaris and simply adopt your package framework?
As of now, you have to install Nexenta Alpha 1 (which is build27 based). May be there is a simple way to adopt packages. I'll think about it. Its known fact that dpkg and apt-get totally independent from the system and could be executed on Solaris without modifications or recompilations. > Also, how do you build packages from source? Are there options for using > SunPro > compilers and custom optimisation flags? Right now we have gcc-3.x and gcc-4.x. Majority of FOSS requires gcc to build. But nobody stops you to run SunPro compiler on NexentaOS since in core NexentaOS is just yet another OpenSolaris based distribution but GNU-centric. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
