Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:20:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's your Window Manager preference? Message-ID: <199810091620.JAA22086@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981008171823.4638C-100000@crl.crl.com>
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>Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:21:12 -0700 (PDT) >From: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> >.. Unfortunatly, Soloris is similar to NT, but a UNIX, so >its a real pain to do much, has no terminal commands (basicly), and >doesn't come with any great packages... sound familiar? ??!? I realize this is a FreeBSD list, but suggesting that Solaris has no "terminal commands" is just a bit much.... As for any similarity to "NT" -- well, I've never knowingly used NT. I'll grant that Solaris 2.x is rather incomplete as shipped by Sun, since it doesn't come with a compiler. Fortunately, FTPing over to sunsite.unc.edu can fix that (as well as add a bunch of other things to get the system functional; just be sure you allocate plenty of space for /usr/local). I even run NetHack on a Solaris 2.6 (SPARC) system (using the X Window interface for NetHack, with the xpm tiles; it's fairly nice -- still kinda annoying when there are serveral critters of the same kind around you, and some are hostile, while others aren't). david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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