On Sunday 21 September 2008 06:23:54 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Well having spent a week on Solaris 10.. I can understand why. Most of the tools I am used to getting in a base install of CentOS are not there.. and I will be spending most of this week getting various tools installed so that the programmers do not need to have a crazy chain of if/else logic to deal with OS of the week.
If that's your only complaint then download the latest version of Nevada. Build 98 has a lot of the software you miss in Sol10. Not quite on OpenSolaris level but its a big step up anyway.
Oh, and make sure /usr/sfw is actually in your path...
Linux/Sparc is fragile at best. Even Ubuntu/Sparc on a T2000 (a Sun certified configuration) isn't nearly as stable as Solaris on the same HW.
Peter.