[TriLUG] Making Solaris "feel" like Linux?

[Reginald Reed]

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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