[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[Frank Van Damme]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 15:12, sammy ominsky wrote:
> SO don't use it. A package mangler^Wmanager is NOT the essence of a
> distribution. Grab tarballs, and build from source. especially easy on
> a consistent hardware/software platform, where you build once and roll
> to a number of boxes.

Imho, package management is the main selling point for a distribution :-)

Frank