[H-GEN] no /opt?

[James McPherson - Customer Technical Support Engineer]

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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. :)

Yes. Of course, actually _compiling_ (let alone _making_) a lot of tools or 
packages that say they are gnu is often quite a pain in the arse. One thing I've 
discovered since I started working with SunOS and Solaris fulltime is that there 
are an _awfully_ large number of packages out there which are linux/*bsd centric 
such that hacking them to compile let alone run on a different version of unix 
is almost not worth the effort. Yes, I know that this reflects my bias, but is 
it too much to ask that people who write code separate out the 
machine/seriously_os_dependent stuff into their own code space so that people 
who want to port can do so relatively easily? </soapbox>

Re Ben's footnote (now text body bit) 1 - in a previous message I was somewhat 
dismissive of pretty much every clustering solution I'd seen. Of course, I found 
out last week that we've just got a new release of our clustering software, 
which is, according to our local specialists, incredibly good. I'll have to see 
it to believe it though and might have to wait until I've done the course at our 
UK office.... ;) (off to Broomfield, Colorado in June ;> - I love training!)

cheers,
James C. McPherson
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