[Suns-at-Home] GNU packages for sun

[David Richerby]

Ken Nagorski wrote (on Tue, 5 December):
> I am trying to get some packages for the Solaris 7 and I find all
> over net "Go to this great site sunfreeware.com" Which is great
> except I can NEVER get into the ftp server to download anyhting. I
> have been trying for days and it times out every time.
>
> Anyone know where else I might find some things like this? I am
> mostly looking for bash and gzip.

Several people have suggested alternative locations for packages.
bash and gzip are also trivial to compile from source, IME.  The
source is available practically everywhere; any search engine will
suggest more locations than you can shake a stick at.


Dave.