On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: > OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite > web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled > Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris > native packaging system sucks, compared to pkgsrc.
Actually, native Solaris's PKG system is quite advanced but not eye candy and hard to use. But today OpenSolaris users has another option besides pkgsrc. Its Debian's based Nexenta OS with 18000+ packages avaialable in source form and 3000+ in binary form. (as of today). And number packages is growing. Debian repository has everything latest/greates. And pretty much all of available Debian packages compiles on NexentaOS quite easily. (remember that Debian is platform-independent technology, i.e. it has ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and now SunOS). Its actually really cool to find out that on the second day after new version of mplayer is released, corresponding Debian package gets updated to the latest. Check out http://www.gnusolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
