On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:08 +, 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 cli
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 Solari
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 pack
If you've never heard of pkgsrc, have a look at http://www.pkgsrc.org/
Basically pkgsrc is a cross platform package management framework, that has
support for many different Unix operating systems, not just NetBSD. I use
pkgsrc quite successfuly on Solaris, however there is still a large number
