GNU Tools for Solaris

[Chong Yu Meng]

Ben Duncan wrote:

> Looks Like I will be helping out on a SunFire Server running Slowlaris 8.
> Anybody know where I can download my beloved GNU toolkit / addons ..
>
> Such things as GCC, tcpdump, network utils, log parsers, perl/Python, 
> locate,
> development libraries and the like ??

http://sunfreeware.com is what you are looking for! Navigate the site 
*carefully* because they have packages for Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 
10. You do know how to install those packages, right ? For Linux we have 
rpm. The equivalent in Solaris is pkgadd ('pkgadd -d <package_name>')

HTH

pascal chong