[rescue] Packages for Solaris 2.5

[John Carr]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 05:47:03PM -0400, Mark Price via rescue wrote:
>    I've installed Solaris 2.5.1 on my SparcCLASSIC, and now want to try to
>    make it useful.
>    Are there any sources online for packages - C compiler and GNU tools?
>    I found a mirror of old "sunfreeware" stuff, but it only goes back to
>    Solaris
>    2.6:  http://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/vendor/sun/freeware/sparc/
>    I've tried Googling but just running into broken links so far...

The two that I've used consistently lately while I"m trying to get NetBSD
pkgsrc working on Solaris 8:

Ibiblio:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/

Or, the old Sunfreeware site has a mirror out there:
https://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/sunfreeware/