--- UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sun studio just has to be as available so that > > software developers will hopefully stop using > gcc/gnu > > ld specific stuff and an easy to update open > solaris > > distribution (nexenta looking pretty much > there...) > > being installed everywhere will hopefully draw the > > attention of those software developers to open > > solaris... > > I'm unsure what you mean by the above paragraph. Sun > Studio has been available gratis for some time now, > for Solaris and for Linux. It beats the living > daylights out of GCC in just about every respect, > yet people don't even know that there is such a > thing as Sun Studio, let alone that it's gratis.
Well, I am out to try to get some things working on Solaris and I had to hunt around before I realized that Sun Studio was gratis...I still remember the bundle I paid for my Ultra 5 + Solaris 8 and Sun Studio not long before Solaris 8/9 became a free download... > > What concretely do you propose to solve that issue? I don't know...I thought that Sun Studio had some restrictions when I downloaded it... The Solaris Express Developer edition has this not for production tag on it and I recently discovered the Sun Studio Express (don't you love gcc extension using software)... I only found out about the Linux sun compiler by chance after having actively looked out for it from time to time. I guess the best way is to make the developers take Solaris into account by making their users want to take Open Solaris/Solaris 10 for a ride. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
