[plug] See how the other half live

[chris mcdonald]

# >They've announced that Solaris for Intel/Sparc will become gratis for
# >personal/educational use.
# 
# It's not very different to other Unix's. 

I think this last statement is mostly true because SunOS and Solaris have
been the defining face of Unix for near 15 years.
It's not surprising, then, that Solaris is "not very different".


# But you still have to get your GNU utilities. The first thing you will want to
# get is GCC since there is not C compiler with the base distribution.

And the excellent place to get all this is:

		http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.6.html
(and maybe)
		http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html

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