[TriLUG] Making Solaris "feel" like Linux?

[Roy Vestal]

FYI...NC System Administrators meets in Dreyfus at RTI every 2nd Monday of 
every month. I know there are some of TriLUG that are members of NC*SA. 
http://www.ncsysadmin.org I've gotten some good advice from them.

You can also try #solaris on irc.openprojects.net or irc.trilug.org 

HTH

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Reginald Reed wrote:

> The first thing I'd try to do is become friends with the local sysadmin.
> Its very likely that he/she has some standard Gnu stuff squirrel away on
> an NFS server for him/herself.  Even if she/he doesn't, they may be open
> to providing you some none home directory space to build/install
> goodies.  And who knows, once you've proven you know what you are doing,
> you might even get root.
> 
> If that doesn't work, then hopefully you don't have a restrictive quota
> on your home directory space.  In this case, become very familiar with
> specifying options on the configure command-line and roll your own.
> 
> --Reggie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> > [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Purdy
> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:38 AM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: [TriLUG] Making Solaris "feel" like Linux?
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
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Roy Vestal
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http://www.trilug.org/~rvestal

I'm not a geek, I just play one on tv.
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