Posts Tagged with 'gentoo'

11 Mar 2005

Someone’s done it - GNU/Solaris is Alive

I mentioned the other day about the pending release of OpenSolaris and the news that Gentoo’s portage will be ported to OpenSolaris. Well, one of the guys at work has set the ball rolling with his implementation of GNU/UNIX using pkgsrc and the Solaris 10 core installation available for download from the Sun Solaris [...]

04 Mar 2005

Gentoo/OpenSolaris is Coming

With the impending release of OpenSolaris, I was pleased to discover that Gentoo Technologies, Inc, traditionally a maker of the GNU/Linux distro, Gentoo, will be making their package management system, portage, available to Solaris. This will probably be called “portaris” and will allow one to download, compile and install applications in the same ease that [...]

22 Feb 2005

I Broke it Again

Well, my webserver had been up continously for over a month and had been without updates for even longer. So yesterday I thought it would be wise to update my system (emerge –update world). BIG mistake. I managed to break it.
But as you can see, I got it all working again. [...]