On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:40:28PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >What is it about OpenBSD that I can't resist it? > > > >After the past long exchange about "our ultimate goal" and a lot of > >people advising me to go over to Solaris 10, I did, I removed OpenBSD > >from one of my machines and installed "Solaris Express Developers > >Edition". > >It was slick looking, very graphical with most of things you want to > >do, had Java SE 5/6 preinstalled, and had everything thing that I was > >expecting from OpenBSD. > > > >But yet, after 2 hours of fooling around, I came back to OpenBSD. > > > >For one thing, it took me almost 1.5 hours to install Solaris, compare > >that to 30 minutes with OpenBSD, including 'packages', 'src' and > >'ports'. > > > >The second thing was probably the knowledge that things are simple > >with OpenBSD, none of the complicated layouts thing as with Solaris. > >You could follow instructions from ancient books like "Practical Unix > >and Internet Security - Second Edition" to the T. > > > >Given all that, inspite of all the hammering I've taken over my > >comments, I'd prefer to stick with OpenBSD. > > > >Thanks to Theo and the core gang for delivering such a good, clean > >operating environment. > > > >Best, > > > >~Mayuresh > > yeah, I've been doing some things with Solaris for work, it's stunned > me that an OS can take most of DVD...and still be missing what I would > call absolute basics that OpenBSD has on an install that fits in half > of a CD. I know, deep down, Solaris is a very good OS, and inspires a > lot of the work OpenBSD developers do, but man, it's got user interface > "features" that were fixed in MS-DOS and CP/M decades ago, and What The > Heck do you put on an entire DVD when it doesn't even have a C compiler > or some very basic management tools...
Solaris does have gcc and all the gnu stuff in the default install, you just have to add /usr/sfw/bin to your path ... and sometimes prefix some commands with 'g'. For instance 'ggrep -r ...' instead of 'grep -r ...' to search recursively with gnu grep (a worthless feature imho).
