Loading free software on Suns

Loading free software on Suns

Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:41 UTC (Fri) by mikec (guest, #30884)
In reply to: Loading free software on Suns by corbet
Parent article: Sun Announces Support for Postgres Database on Solaris 10

Well, I did not manage to avoid that pain - I just found it elsewhere trying to compile X11 for 64bit alpha and dealing with (void *) typing issues in drivers...

I just did not try to do anything with a Sun Box until more recently (well almost 5 years ago now - wow has it been 5 years?)

I always assumed all the pain I suffered on Alpha,Linux and the like at home though the early and mid 90's - relative to the stability of Sun platform for development at work - was that Sun really had an edge (at least in the late 90's) - it was only when I realized how hard my Sun sysadmins were working to hide this from me that I understood what was really going on...

Of course the sad thing is that even with all that toil and "instability", I still managed to have 'nix boxes at home running for months on end while the windows boxes needed rebooting daily...

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