[geeks] The best things in the world

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:34:51AM -0500, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:

> software and crappy search, but Solaris takes it a step further. You  
> have to create a license file to use smpatch to its fullest, even  
> though the license is free for anyone to use. If you want the same C  
> compiler that built all of the system binaries, you'll have to  
> download, install, and license that separately as well. In fact, even  
> obtaining Solaris in the first place is painful because of the onerous  
> click, click, accept, click, java <facepalm> that is entailed to  
> download it.

Actually, SunStudio doesn't require license files anymore and it doesn't
require the nasty installer anymore.  SunStudio 12 was just download a
tarball and extract it to /opt and go.

> (And... well, right now I'm biased, because I can't get Solaris to  
> install for the fucking life of me right now: 
> <http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10107667 > (not my post, but 
> my problem, and those fixes aren't fixes for me).)

I think I see what your problem is.  You aren't using SPARC.  ;)