[geeks] Solaris 10 install size

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 @ 01:12 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:14:49AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > > Ahhh......sunhelp.org?  
> > Nope, it really doesn't do much in this area.
> > It might be nice if sunhelp.org hosted that kind of thing, but I'm not
> > sure there are enough people willing to maintain something like that.
> 
> For Solaris software, there's the Blastwave and SunFreeware folks.
> Once I get the new machine up and running, I may see about mirroring both
> collections...

I never have liked Sunfreeware very much.

Blastwave, I had forgotten about that one.  It looks a lot more updated
than SunFreeware.  I like the DVD.  I wish I'd remembered that a couple
of weeks ago.

For the time being, I have installed FreeBSD on my Sun.  I just needed
to get up and running quickly.  It runs great, has most of Solaris'
features and some it doesn't, and even has its own form of zones.

FreeBSD 6.1 seems to be past a lot of the 5.x pain that scared me away
in recent years.

> > Also, Bill isn't a publisher last time I checked, so there is still
> > the book vacancy.
> 
> I'd planned on doing a "Sun Handbook" type thing, sort of a "Linux for
> Dummies" type book geared toward Solaris and Sun hardware, but I just 
> don't have the time nowdays.  

That would be an interesting book.  Did you ever get started?

> SunHELP stuff takes at least  an hour a day of my time already, and I get 
> very little in return except people sending me email and DEMANDING that I 
> do their Java homework for them, etc.  The occasional "Wow, you just saved 
> my day, thanks a ton" comment makes it all worth it though.

I've maintained things like that, and basically what happens is that
99.something percent of your users just take it for granted.

> I've turned down multiple offers to sell the site or "sell out" and turn 
> it purely into a money-making venture (purchases from my Amazon Wish List 
> [0] are gratefully accepted, though..); I've been doing the site for going
> on nine years now and I can't imagine *not* running it or having full 
> control.

You also might find that if you sold out, the payoff wouldn't be that
great.

I know someone who did that, and they basically got ripped off.  You
have to be careful even if you want to do this.


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