[Suns-at-Home] GNU packages for sun

[Garry Garrett]

Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         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.

You have to go to http://www.sunfreeware.com/ - it's HTML not FTP.
Having said that, once you get on there to download things, it
takes you to ftp://nce.sun.ca/ to actually download the packages.

Note, if you FTP in with Sun's FTP client, "ls" doesn't quite work
right with their FTP daemon (it will tell you there are no files
found).  In FTP, if you pass "ls" one (and only one) argument, then
the FTP server will call /bin/ls, which will work correctly.  I
like to use "ls -C".  If you pass more than one argument to "ls"
within FTP, the second argument is taken as a filename to save
the output of the "ls" into, so you can't pass multiple arguments
to "ls" via FTP.

There is also http://www.freeware4sun.com/ - this is actually a
site in Poland.  They don't have quite as wide of a selection of
stock standard utilities, but they do have something that 
SunFreeware is a bit lacking in, games (they have GNU Chess and
that's about it).  Freeware4Sun also tends to take all of the
packages that they have and compiles them on ALL versions of
Solaris.  SunFreeware will compile the latest freeware for
the latest version of the O.S. - They don't go back and compile
it for older versions.  So Enscript 1.5.0 is available for
Solaris 2.5.1, but Enscript 1.6.1 is available for Solaris 2.6,
etc.

SunFreeware is generally my preference, but Freeware4Sun sometimes
has stuff that SunFreeware just doesn't.  Use at your own risk.

-- 
Garry Garrett
http://garrett.no-ip.com/ 

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