Blastwave woes
Blastwave is a project which builds Solaris comaptible pkgs out of GNU
software for Solaris 8 - 11. I wasn't that sure about project
structures, security and so on when I installed their packages. I looked
for a better project and found NetBSD pkgsrc that time. We run NetBSD
pkgsrc on Solaris 8/Solaris 9 and Linux at my company and we are quite
happy with it - there is no need for such projects as blastwave. Hoever,
there is something interesting - when a single person has founded a
project and is in power of everything, this project is likely about to
explode one day. Do you remember fink? The package manager for MacOS X?
For every of my readers, I suggest to switch to NetBSD pkgsrc, for your
freedom and your security and software needs. Maybe I should set up a
small article how to get started on Solaris.
