Solaris 10

So I decided I would install Solaris 10 to see if I am able to get a compiler going (GCC) to see if I can port certain parts of 0x58-unix to Solaris, most notably the event handling. It is proving to more difficult than I had imagined to get a real Unix system up and running. I am able to log in over SSH and use bash, which is better than the default shell that Solaris uses.

Everything is different, whereas in FreeBSD I am pretty used that when I go to Linux that some commands will act differently, Solaris is a totally different beast. The PS output I was looking for in FreeBSD is:

ps auxwww

in Solaris it is:

ps -Af

Took me a while to figure out. I have to re-learn different commands, where things are located. GCC is not even installed standard, so as far as I know there is no compiler on the system, and that for an install that is pretty hefty. First thing I need to teach myself is how to make the install lean. I want just core, no Xorg, no staroffice and other such stuff that makes no sense to have on something that is a server.