Triggered by a NetBSD-related BLOG entry on the net, I today discovered to my surprise and pleasure that because of our Sun Solaris OS support Sun points people also to OpenPKG in the top-level README document on their brand new Sun Solaris 10 Software Companion CDROM (sol-10-ccd-GA-x86-iso.iso):
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Solaris(tm) Software Companion CD January, 2005 The Solaris(tm) Software Companion CD is a collection of useful and popular software for use in conjunction with the Solaris 10 Operating Environment on both the SPARC and Intel architectures. This software consists of many public domain or freely available programs including utilities, productivity and development tools and much more. [...] OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS: In addition to this distribution (of open-source packages built for the Solaris OS) other distributions are also available. They are provided by projects that are independent and separate from the Solaris Software Companion CD project. They include the following: [...] OpenPKG (Solaris builds): http://www.openpkg.org/ [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Seems like OpenPKG during the last years successfully fixed its position in the still hard-fought software packaging field and is starting to be acknowledged by the Unix OS vendors as a serious long-term player... -- The OpenPKG Project Ralf S. Engelschall Cross-Platform Unix Software Packaging OpenPKG Project Leader http://www.openpkg.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [email protected]
