[H-GEN] Free Solaris (was: package management systems.)

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

> Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> | Okay, this makes me want to try a BSD again.
> You could do worse :-)

My last shot with NetBSD was kind of nice, but I didn't have a machine
good enough to track -current, really.  Now that I have one, I'd be
tempted again, but I have too much invested in this thing's setup.

> | I'm still wondering if it'd be worth my time to get the CDs and a
> | spare disk to install it, just to learn how to run a Sun box.
> | Opinions?
> 
> Depends where you are on your career path and where you plan to
> go.

Well right now I would just like to get moving.  So I guess the
question is "Is it worth the time and pain it would take to
(re)install a Solaris 9 system and work on it?"  I wouldn't want to
put that amount of time in and not have it be worth my time.

I also don't like the idea of risking my data by tooling around with
an unknown, but it'd be cheaper than a course (which I gather still
aren't held in terribly high esteem).
-- 
``I may have agreed to something involving a goat.''  -- CJ

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