[H-GEN] no /opt?

[Robert Brockway]

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Ben Carlyle <benc at foxboro.com.au> wrote:

: [1] Good filesystems with built-in software RAID solutions, nice clustering
:     features, that sort of thing...

: [2] Packaging is still very simplistic, many basic tools[3] are quite
: limited, and are not easily replaced by more advanced tools, forcing
: users to choose one or the other set earlier in their path... that
: sort of thing. 

http://www.sunfreeware.com [1]

Makes putting gnu tools on Solaris painless. :)

[1] A mirror is available on mirror.aarnet.edu.au but I've seen corrupt
packages on it more than once that were fine from the home site.  Go
figure.

: [3] sed, awk, etc... limitations such as a line may not containt more than a
:     hundred or so characters... that sort of thing.  I'm in the mood for
:     generalities.

See previous para:)
Rob (hmm...apt random sig :) [2]

[2] I am often stunned at how often my random sigs are relevant to the
discussion at hand.  So much so I always check them to make sure they
can't be taken the wrong way.  A few times I've had to change them lest I
start a flame war just fron the context. :)

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au, robert at ralnet.net
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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Linux the choice of a Gnu generation

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