[OT] Re: Solaris/Debian
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Saku Ytti wrote:
> Also if someone is working for a company doing commercial distribution like
> solaris I'd truly woul like to know what is the reason they don't apply some
> humane way to install/remove administrade programs. Hell, for a engineer paid
> $150k/year it wouldn't be too much to ask to code sun-get, when he could
> 'steal' the the code from GPLd code and release Solaris 10 with a
> ETOOBIGPRICETAG ;).
Although it's not the same as having Solaris .debs, pkg-get is quite nice.
See http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/. At my employer, we're in the
process of writing a bff-get for AIX. Goodbye Tivoli Monitoring and
Software Distribution, hello NetSaint and ???-get. The odd thing is, no
matter how much money (and time and cycles) we save, we get paid the
same... ;)
HTH,
tony
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