[nflug] New Toy...

[Wolfe, Robert]

Yeah, I discovered this yesterday with the recommendation of a friend 
who told me about the site after I told him that I normally use 
sunfreeware.com.  Blasterwave.org is MUCH better since I am used to 
using Deb-based distros ;)

Darin Perusich wrote:
> More to share...
>
> If I'm not mistaken you like Debian so your very used to using apt-get 
> for package installation. I'd like to introduce you to the joys of the 
> Solaris Blastwave.org community and our wonderful pkg-get installation 
> tool. Head over to http://www.blastwave.org/ for all the details but 
> pkg-get is basically a clone of apt-get, though not quite as 
> sophisticated. You can pretty much use it to install nearly any 
> software package that you'd use on your standard Linux Distribution.
>
> I've been involved with Blastwave for about three years now, I 
> maintain a bunch of packages for the community, though I will admit 
> I've been slacking as of recent.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Darin Perusich wrote:
>> I sit on a SunRay thin client connected to one of two clustered 
>> Solaris 9 v210 servers for 8+ hours a day. My desktop is KDE 3.3.1, 
>> firefox 2, thunderbird 2 beta, and tons of other GNU goodies. What 
>> else can I share with you?
>>
>> Wolfe, Robert wrote:
>>> Good morning, everyone! :)
>>>
>>> Well, recently discovered (recently as in yesterday) the joys (or 
>>> pains, depending on who you ask <G>) of Solaris on my Ultra 5 here 
>>> at home (which is what I am using this post this message along with 
>>> Thunderbird) .  What I was wondering is there anyone else who is 
>>> running a similar setup (Solaris on Sun equipment) here in WNY that 
>>> would like to maybe share their experiences with a Solaris noob :)
>>>
>>> Thanks and peace,
>>> Rob
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>>
>

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