[TriLUG] Making Solaris "feel" like Linux?

[Greg Brown]

Spot:

Do you still want that Sparc 4?  I'm going "virtual office" and need to 
get "my" sparc 4 and Sun LX out of the office.

Greg

On Friday, Jan 17, 2003, at 12:13 America/New_York, Tom 'spot' Callaway 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 10:37, Geoff Purdy wrote:
>> I've been working almost exclusively with Linux at home and
>> at work for the past two years.  I recently changed jobs and
>> my new employer is a Solaris shop.  Since I've grown
>> comfortable with Linux, I'm wondering what I can do to give
>> Solaris a similar feel.
>>
>> I don't have root on any of the unix systems at work so I'm
>> limited in the software I can install (i.e.  I can't install
>> XFree86 or GNU ls).
>>
>> An obvious first step was to switch my shell to bash.
>> Anyone care to share other tips?  Thanks.
>
> Well, my first instinct was to tell you to install Linux on that SPARC
> hardware (no bias there, *whistle*), but it doesn't sound like that is
> an option. Not having root makes it more complicated, and really
> prevents the addition of much outside of your own user space, but you
> can likely build a lot of OSS applications in your home directory if
> you're careful.
>
> ~spot
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