Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10 [LWN.net]

Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10

Posted Nov 18, 2005 1:35 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10 by mikec
Parent article: Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10

Sun is doing a lot better now; recent versions of Solaris include a reasonable sampling of free software tools, and even fairly recent Perl versions.

But I agree: The missing pieces are frustrating. You can then either install from source, download from Sunfreeware.com, or try to use the Blastwave stuff that insists on taking over your entire system and half-borking it in the process.

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Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10

Posted Nov 18, 2005 8:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

... or write your own simpleminded package manager and build system, like I had to in a previous job. (Hey, it only spent a month or two of lunchtimes... installing everything in stow trees under $HOME did annoy the admins when the volume reached gigabytes though. :) )