[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

Michael-John Turner mj at mjturner.net
Sat Apr 5 06:58:57 CDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:16:14PM -0400, Alois Hammer wrote:
> And, honestly?  I can't stand Sun Solaris.  The userland tools are
> terrible, and getting good GNU tools on seems to be an exercise in
> hair-pulling, cursing, and wondering why stuff doesn't get updated for
> months or longer.  (Or has someone produced an alternative to
> SunFreeware?)

Sorry to sound like a stuck record, but pkgsrc works pretty well on
Solaris (not perfectly mind you). A fair amount of the GNU toolset is there
and should work out the box.

[1] http://www.pkgsrc.org/

-mj
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