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I am so surprised at your quick response. Even some of the paid supports are not that efficient.

Solaris is my favourite OS, and Sunfreeware.com is an invaluable extension of it. Actually, I always thought Sunfreeware was part of Sun before this noon.

I really appreciate the work you are doing, and I will be telling my friends about this.

I found that the visibility of having my project listed on Sunfreeware was invaluable in attracting a large number of downloads, and quickly bringing a great deal of constructive feedback my way - enabling me to fix issues quickly and develop a quality tool, tested in a wide range of situations.

Without this feedback, a complex tool such as Seccheck would have undoubtedly contained issues that would have been hard to track and fix. But thanks to the project being listed on Sunfreeware, I've received the required feedback, and it's been of a very high quality - which is a great testament to the users that your site attracts - professionals, developers and sysadmins who know where to go when they want quality Solaris packages.

As a Solaris System Administrator, I know that I can always find the packages I am looking for on Sunfreeware, and am very pleased that I have been able to share my work through this avenue.

Thanks again for the listing.

Kevin

Subject: Great site!

Just wanted to thank you for this site. I'm spoiled by GNU/Linux. At work I've got an old Sun box that we still use for certain clients that need ftp. I always dread having to do any admin tasks on it because I get no colors with ls, no vim (just vi), and I can't pipe between tar, gzip and ssh! All of this freeware is great! I'm in heaven!

From a very large aerospace company -
Yes!!!
Thanks Steve, this will help much.
Your site is a fantastic resource, I appreciate your assistance.

I would like to mention here that sunfreeware is an indispensable site and we would be lost without it. We are a solely Sun Solaris site relying on it to provide all server functions to our 2500+ user community. Keep up the excellent work and thanks again.

I was hired a few months ago into a team of programmers who are spending an increasing amount of time using PuTTY to communicate with a SunFire V890 running Solaris 9. Having been thoroughly spoiled by Linux terminals, I was quite shocked by how user-antagonistic the whole thing was. Ancient versions of bash, vi, sysutils, etc, that couldn't function if you resized your window and didn't understand color. Then two wonderful things happened. First, I discovered that I had admin rights on the machine, and second, I stumbled onto your page. Now I walk past coworkers' desks and see beautiful, syntax-highlighted vim sessions and colorful ls readouts, and I feel genuinely useful. I thank you sincerely for your work.

Hello. After years of use by myself, my staff, and my colleagues, I want to thank you for building and maintaining a service that has saved hundreds of hours of effort building software that your site provides to the community for free. The sunfreeware site has become one of those tools that, before you know it, you can't live without. Thank you very much.

Thanks for taking a lot of the work out of software installations. Several of the packages that you offer change quite often, especially the ones dealing with security. Using your pre-packaged software makes these frequent updates a lot easier, especially since we don't have to deal with the compiling. Thanks for the peace of mind. I have been using your site for a few years, now. All of my old servers are running Solaris 8, but my new ones are all Solaris 10. Thanks for both versions -- no hassles, no worries.
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I don't know if you get paid to run sunfreeware.com - but it SO VALUABLE to me. I use it all the time to make sure I have the latest releases and all the packages work great.

Just want to say thanks - I'm sure it takes a lot of effort to keep everything up to date.

Introduction

You will see a list of the programs ported to Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and Solaris 10 for SPARC and Intel/AMD processors in the frame to the right. Select your architecture first, then the programs available will be listed in the window at the lower right. Click on the program you want and it will appear in the center windows. These lists will be updated frequently, so check back often.

Before you use any of the programs here, PLEASE read the documents at the links to the upper left, especially the Downloading/Installation, and FAQ links. You will save yourself a lot of time and email if you know what to do with the resources here before you download anything.

I have added links File Sizes and MD5 Checksums links that contain all the file sizes in bytes and the results of running the md5 program on the files.

The FTP/Mirror Sites link, which is updated periodically, will take you to other sites that contain some or all of the information given here. Some of these sites do not update very often, so you may want to check back here periodically.

I have included a page on how the packages here were created. This Creating Packages has proven useful to a lot of other system administrators and those who want to distribute software in the pkgadd format.

There are a lot of other sites on the net dealing with Sun or Solaris issues. See the Other Useful Sites link.

Many people have helped in this effort. Their enormous contributions are discussed in the Credits. Past Comments/Kudos and information on How You Can Help are also of interest.

On my home page Christensen Home, you will find some comments on special services I can provide.

I hope you get a lot of use out of this site.

Happy computing!

Steve Christensen

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This page was last updated on December 13, 2007.