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| On (05/10/05 10:05), Glenn Lagasse wrote:
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| Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:05:29 -0700
| From: Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: Andrew K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Swtching from Windows to Solaris
| Cc: [email protected]
|
| Hi Andrew,
|
| * Andrew K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > Hello,
| > I've constantly been trying to port to Linux, I've tried Ubuntu,
| > Gentoo, Fedora, Mandrake, the whole bit. Everytime there's something
| > wrong, then I found Solaris.
I don't see how you are going to have an easier time on Solaris
if you are having problems with easy to use distros like Ubuntu,
which are super user friendly (relative to the *X implementations
out there).
Solaris is more of a struggle, though maybe you will be better off
than some as you will not be comparing Solaris to Linux/*BSD when
trying to figure out how to do things.
To quote #solaris on irc.freenode.net :
--snip--
16:31 -!- Topic for #solaris: Help for many issues can be found here:
http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/solaris.html ||
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin - x86 users also look at
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl || http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/ ||
http://www.sunhelp.org/ || Don't forget http://www.sunfreeware.com ||
Solaris Jihad! || yes, we already know about
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/rejected/index.html Furrfu!
--snip--
There are the resources you'll need when looking for help. #solaris is
one avenue of help available, after looking it up on google and the
above links. Solaris community is still strong, and not full so much
of kiddies and lame people looking to 0wn j00 ;)
Wish you luck, just be aware that Solaris isn't as user friendly and
new user friendly as say Ubuntu/Fedora. Maybe you're a Solaris person :)
Just be aware it will be a learning curve :)
-Chris
| > I've been aware of Solaris' existence for a while, (geeky comic
| > books and such) and have been more interested. Now I've decided that
| > I might try switching to Solaris. The only problem I have is I need
| > to keep contact with people via MSN Messenger and AIM. Is there a
| > list of OSS for Solaris which might contain the messengers?
|
| Gaim (gaim.sourceforge.net) provides IM capability for MSN, AIM,
| Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber and probably more. It runs on Solaris just fine
| (and is included in Solaris). If you want the most recent version
| of Gaim, the package from blastwave.org is probably the easiest one
| to install (unless you want to compile your own).
|
| > Other than that I'm just concerned with my collection of music and
| > ability to transfer school work and such.
|
Pretty much everything is available to you that is available in *BSD
and Linux. You can use the pkg-get repository or what I prefer, the
NetBSD pkgsrc repository.
I would be sure to check device support if you have an x86 machine.
bigadmin is your friend :)
| Depending on what format your music is in, you shouldn't have a
| problem. If it's in WMV (Windows) format, your likely out of luck
| (without playing some serious "games" to find a compatible player).
| If your music is in MP3 or OGG format, you can find players for
| those formats pretty easily (xmms comes to mind) that work on
| Solaris. If your just talking about playing CD's, that works just
| fine on Solaris.
|
| Cheers,
|
| --
| Glenn Lagasse
| Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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