On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote: > 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... Hmmm that might be my problem. I had not looked at what additional paths were there. The boxes I am supposed to support are 2.7,2.8,2.9 and 2.10 so I am going to have to figure out a way to 'unify' them as much as possible without breaking the core application's needs. > > 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. > Sounds like it was back when Red Hat was shipping it in 5.x.. > Peter. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"