From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 9 09:21:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28815 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28803 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA22086 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:20:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810091620.JAA22086@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: What's your Window Manager preference? Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:21:12 -0700 (PDT) >From: Ben Manes >.. 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