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Your precompiled Solaris binaries web page is AWESOME!!!! I don't know how many hours I've spend in the past trying to find a gcc binary to boot strap cc'less Solaris 2.5 systems.

First of all, I'd like to express my gratitude for putting up this really needed website. This site saved me numerous hours of installation work and most likely saved me some headaches as well.

Thank you for a very well organized & useful site. You have saved me a great deal of time!

I just downloaded gcc2.7.2.1 from your web site, and it works GREAT!!!
Thank you..

Your help is appreciated, and keep up the awesome work man!

I am trying to bring up a server for our County schools and was stuck getting some things compiled. I was very happy to find your site so I could get back to building services for our schools. Thanks very much for putting the effort into making this happen!

Thank you very much for the help! I really appreciate you taking the time to give some direction! You UNIX guys and gals are hard to find sometimes!!

What a wonderful site you have! I found just about everything I needed there, and installation was a snap.

Wow cool thanks for all your help i will try downloading the package soon and test it out again...

many thanks for your help :) much appreciated :)

This Solaris Freeware is absolutely great site. I used it couple of times. It saves time and nerves.

This is a great site and a useful resource. Thanks for putting in the work.

I find this wonderful (the packages).

Steve, love your Solaris site....

Worked like a charm! -- Thanks Steve.

Thanks for the site. It really helps me support our system.

First of all, let me just say what a great site you have! I see your planning to offer stuff that goes in /usr/local as well as /opt; this is a good idea IMHO!

I have installed a few of the packages on this Solaris 2.5(.1) freeware site and have had great luck installing them on my SS20/SX at home.

I stumbled on to your site (Solaris 2.5 Freeware) a while back and have been amazed by what you have available. You have saved me alot of work. Thanks.

Thanks for your site and all your work.

Thank you very much for this resource. Just wanted you to know that the ease and simplicity of this site, made my life alot easier.

Steve, I've found your web site very valuable and do appreciate your ports of these packages.

Your service has helped me thorough the difficulties setting up my secondhand Sun workstation. Congratulations, this is really useful!

Hi Steve, a real cool Solaris freeware page you got... Much appreciated, you save me lot of time compiling packages not to mention some packages I have trouble compiling them and you have them all here...

Well done mate and keep it up ..

I just wanted to let you know that your Solaris 2.5 site is Awesome! I hate having to hunt down applications all over the Internet, but I like having everything I'm looking for all in one place neatly organized and ready to install.

Thanks again, and Great Site!

You're the bomb ! I love you guys. You saved me hours and hours of searching the net and compiling source. Thanks a million !

You and the Free Software Foundation are the bright spots in a dark world of monopolistic software thievery.

Thanks again !

I'm now enthusiastically using your site!

Like the web page on packaging under System V.

Just a quick note to say thanks for the effort you've gone to with this site.

Steve Christensen wrote:
>
> See if http://sunfreeware.com/ultra.html
>
> especially vis5d is of interest.

Superb ... thanks.

I have been a user of your packages for some time now and think they are the best thing since sliced bread.

We were looking at your website. Actually we were amazed.

Congratulations on a wonderful WWW site ... it has made the installation of software VERY easy on this Sun.

First, I would like to say thank you for this wonderful web side. I really appreciate your time and efforts spent on maintaining PD packages for Solaris.

Thanks for the GREAT service you are providing for Solaris/... software.

Whenever I need something you are my number one to check !!!

Thanks for the great site. Nice to find needed tools in pkgadd format. It really saves some time in the installation process.

As I am a regular user of the Sun free software site, i now feel compelled to write and thank you for your great efforts. This site has indeed made otherwise serious tasks easy and routine for me. Solaris 2.5 does not ship with a compiler and therefore is not equipped easily to compile these great programs out there, especially without disk space left ;) But i could compensate the need for software by using the precompiled packages from your site.

Oh , by the way, I think your x86 page is far better than any other x86 page I've seen. Much easy to navigate.

Ghostview/Ghostscript - Thanks. Thanks for posting these packages. They will be appreciated.

Keep on the good work. This is a great site.

From comp.unix.Solaris:

Try:

http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5_x86.html

This site has a raft of pre-compiled SPARC code, plus pointers on the URL given to x86 ports.

Worth a look...

Steve, Thank you for providing such a great web site!

Thank you very much for your help.

I really love the packages. Keep them coming.

I LOVE YOU!!!!

(ps. The page kicks ass, thanks again. Saved me lots of time.)

BTW, your site is great and the packages work.

BTW, we really value your work and if there is anyone at Sun we should remind we'd be happy to do so.

Thank you for your prompt response. I will try your suggestion. I also read the faq.html document at your site and the pkglink.sh utility looks very good too (amazing what happens when one actually reads!). Thanks again...

... having found your site very useful (completely wonderful, etc, etc :)

This is a great site.

I read your topic on how to do packaging, it is very useful!

I hope good things happen and keep up the good work.

Thanks for the tremendous work in organizing this Solaris/freeware effort.

I really appreciate the work you all have done to organize, build, and package this stuff!!!

My friend, thanks much for getting back to me so quickly... much appreciated. In the meantime, you were probably composing a message back to me, I was getting closer.

Just when I got it going and thought I would send you another quick message.... Presto!!!; there was your reply.

Yes indeed, it was the ole "LD_LIBRARY_PATH".

Now I shall go after editing the zillion postscript documents that have been waiting on me for a month or better.

You are a great guy.

Thanks & best regards.

I really appreciate the availability of the Solaris2 binaries you offer! I'm really glad you were there!

And I love your site by the way - no more make problems, just pkgadd and "let's rock....". Why not put in a flash in SunWorld OnLine ????

Thanks a lot for the simplified package generation directions. I hadn't sat down and figured it out. It helped a lot.

I just downloaded and installed xfig for one of the professors here at the Naval Academy. Worked great! We're both happy - he got xfig installed quickly, and I didn't have to compile.

THANKS!

Thank you sir, you're a scholar and gentleman :-)

Great job you are doing putting all that software to the world's disposal.

Your site at http://smc.vnet.net/ with all the Solaris 2.5 binaries is incredibly useful to me and I appreciate you making it available to the public.

I am just converting to Solaris2, and once I cracked the code, I found your smc homepage and downloading very useful. (The code cracking was needed because following the man page for pkgadd I did not think to use pkgadd -d gcc-2.7.2.1, but your page set me on the right path.)

Thanks for putting together such a useful packaging. I particularly like your use of frames on the homepage.

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry I wasted your time, I really should have seen that in the FAQ. That did the trick it appears.

Thanks again for running such a great site.

Thank you very much for your help. After struggling with the admin of the pop3 server, I successfully installed fetchmail yesterday. Works great with the small exception that the demon mode is not this useful (it won't stop on exiting, I have to solve this one but should not prove too difficult). But this is a limitation (feature) residing inside of fetchmail. Otherwise, your package work like a charm.

I just wanted to thank you for writing the document about creating packages for Solaris. I had to build a package for bind-8.1 and it was successful.

It is one thing to just install packages created by others, but my own sysadmin paranoia causes me to want to do it myself. I had never even attempted to do it before.

Let me know if there is ever anything that I can do to help the Solaris Freeware project.

Again, just wanted to say thanks. Your help was immeasurable.

Thank you for providing GNU gcc binaries to the public at http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5.html. I was having problems compiling from the source and your binary distribution saved my day :-)

First thanks for your efforts on supplying pre-built packages.

Thanks for helping this Solaris newbie... :)

Thank god for your web site! I was having a hell of a time trying to compile gcc, when I needed gcc to compile it. Talk about the chicken and the egg!

To: webmaster@sun.com

I would like to direct your attention to the web site smc.vnet.net that provides packaged free software for SUN Solaris workstations.

I was looking for some free software tools but could NOT find anything useful on SUN's web site www.sun.com. Fortunately, I found http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5.html and its pre-compiled GNU software packages work without any problem on my SPARC 20.

Free value-added services such as those provided by smc.vnet.net for SUN user community benefit Sun Microsystems because they promote the sales of Sun computers. The web site smc.vnet.net deserves Sun Microsystem's generous support.

BTW, nice job helping users worldwide by porting vast softwares pre-compiled, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Thanks for the great work.

The SUN package installation listed on your site have saved me many hours from the tedious C compilations.

The Solaris freeware site is awesome. It makes my job as sys- admin much easier. A thousand thank-yous!

Your sunfreeware.com site is very useful and great! I have found a lot of basic softwares already compiled. Thanks!

PS: By the way, your site has a lot of goodies. It's very good!!

First, thanks for taking the time to get everything here up and running.

I am a part time sysadm adn definitely have no time to study intricacies of the pkg building tools. Your work is very-very valuable to me being able to keep track of the installed free softwares. Many thanks for it.

This site absolutely rules. You allow dumb asses like me to be efficient system administrators. Keep up the good work.

Just a short note to thank you for the excellent service that you provide. I have installed a number of the Solaris 2.5 packages from your site, and have found them to be of the highest quality. It is really amazing what is around for free!

I've been using your most excellent site - Solaris 2.5 Freeware - to get a couple of applications running on my box.

Thanks for putting the information on pkgxx on the web. I found your directions very useful and they helped me to create a package for my SPARC box.

I discovered your site in June - downloaded your copy of xfig and installed it for a professor here. We were both VERY happy with it, because it was quick and easy to install, and it was up and available immediately.

first of all, thanks for your wonderful web page. Places were you can find good software for UNIX are very rare.

Thank you steve. This tool is exactly what I need.

I really appreciate the job you are doing on the porting project. Under normal circumstances I perform my own ports, however I have recently started a new job with a new company. I inherited a SPARCstation 10 with no c compiler. Until I remedy this situation I will take advantage of your efforts.

:o)

After so many days looking after pre-compiled softwares for my Solaris platform, I finally found my Eden !

Thank you very much !

Your site is very good! Thank you!

I've had a look at your site and I think you're doing a great service to people with Solaris systems.

I was actually searching for cool pages when accidentally, I stumbled upon your site. It was like a gift from heaven as our Ultra doesn't have a compiler. I quickly browsed your site and found precompiled gcc, I downloaded it and compiled some of the test programs and it worked just fine. Now I'm proud to say that your site made our Ultra complete. Thank you very much.

It works! Your direction is very clear and very helpful.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for your prompt response We found it and have successfully gotten gcc up and running. Thanks very much for your work making the sun package available.

By the way: Your freeware SUN packages are
ssssssssssssssuuuuuuuuuuupppppeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!

Really appreciate your prompt reply to my questions! Good advice.

Thank you very much, you solved my problem. Your pre-compiled packages are great!!!!!!.

First at all: Thanks for your great compilation of Solaris SW!!!

Thank you for the web page, it is invaluable.

thanks again for all your help!!

Just a note to thank you for all of the work being put into the freeware site. It's helped me more than once on a new install when I couldn't find software. I also appreciate the packages for /usr/local. I still haven't gotten adjusted to the /opt way.

Some fine work you have accomplished here .. I am a user ..

Thanks for providing this resource - needed gcc to get other utilities up on Solaris 2.6.

Thanks much for your wonderful site and all the work you must spend providing these programs!

As always, your site is a tremendous help.

Again, thanks muchly for the site.

First - thanks for a great collection of useful packages!

Your site is a bookmark which will be visited often.

First, greetings for you wonderful site about software for Solaris 2.5!

Thanks a lot for all the information and the help you are giving to us.

I just want to say that this is a great service. It saves me time and diskspace.

-Thank's!

Thanks for the site.

Thanks for the effort on the WWW pages/site BTW.

I have just tried ghostview from http://sunfreeware.com and it works! I must have done something wrong when I compiled the source.

Many thanks.

P.S. I love your site. It has helped me a great deal. Thanks for placing Samba up on your site. It is an awesome package.

Thanks for all you are doing for the UNIX community.

Great !!
Thanks

Thanks for the info! I compiled screen using your gcc and it works wonderful!

You have a great site!

Thank you . . . .

i really want to thank you for providing the 'net with your precompiled packages. THANKS ALOT... It has saved me hours.....

Very nice site you have there, always used it when we were first installing Solaris ( SPARC ) :)

I just want to let you know that your site and effort really helped me out. I just couldn't get GNUCC to work. After a long search on the Internet I finally came across your server ... and was saved ;-)

Thank you very much for providing the service of collecting, compiling, packaging, and hosting the Solaris software site. I have gotten the gzip and gcc that I needed from there. I'll be sure to check out the other offerings, but I just wanted to jot down a quick note of THANKS before I forgot.

I use your Freeware for SPARC in a Solaris 2.5 system. Your compiled software works very fine and it is easy to install (pkgadd...).

I downloaded the gzip-1.2.4 software from your site. First I would like to appreciate the nice maintenance of this site. It is easy to navigate and download.

Check out this site, it's full of pre-built Solaris 2.5 stuff, have fun..

http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5.html

;> Thanks to everyone for the initial responses but I'm still having
;> nightmares!!! I downloaded gzip -1.2.4.tar I than used tar -xvf
;> gzip-1.2.4.tar It uncompressed the files into a gzip-1.2.4 directory.
;> I than used ./configure like the readme said but after that there is
;> no executable files!!!! I can't find gzip or gunzip in /usr/bin or
;> anyplace else. I know I'm doing something real stupid but I can't find
;> the files. all the gzip files have extensions and I can't execute
;> them. Any help would let me sleep better,. :-)
;>
;> John

John, let me suggest an easier way. Get gzip in a binary form which is already ready to install. Visit and look for gzip. It's not compressed or tar archived. It's a regular file which you can use with the Solaris pkgadd facility. You'll rest much easier if you do this.

I've long found your Solaris 2.5.1 binaries an incredibly useful resource as I often find myself on a bare-bones Solaris system without the essential utilities.

Thank you very much Mr. Steve Christensen,

I am able to install it successfully with your help.
Thanks again !

We'd like to thank you a lot for your distrib' of gcc.

It helped us a lot to set up a dynamic http server who converts old ascii X25-documentation to html, on an old SPARC-2 station that would be unused otherwise.

The FAQ helped a lot too. It seems to me we had all the troubles you describe, in order you wrote them.

First I want to say thanks for putting out Solaris 2.6 packages of the GNU stuff. It makes my life easier.

Thanks very much for making these packages available!

Thanks Steve, I removed pkg with cd to /var/sadm/pkg and pkgrm GNUperl5. I had an older GNUperl5 (Solaris 2.5) version in there. I thought that removing files from /opt will do the job but pkg manager wants it it's own way. Anyway, thanks for a suggestion and good software. It's so much easier for sysadmin to just install already compiled version of software. Being a solo sysadmin is not easy these days (ever was?) with so many Win95/NT users running loose.

Thanks for the great Solaris resource,

I have found your site very helpful. As a novice syadmin I have sometimes spent days trying to get a software program to compile and work properly. When I use the packages provided by you, installation is a no-brainer, and software administration is as easy as admintool. Also, the Sun I administer is full of applications installed in hodge-podge manner and in various sometimes hidden directories. To have applications precompiled in Sun compatible pkg format is not only a help for me, but for future users who may manage this machine. Any chance you can get a version of netpbm up on your page? I have been trying to setup our Sun for the UIUC Cyberprof program; and with the exception of imagemagic (the author graciously helped me on this one), and netpbm, all the packages required have been available on your site.

Nice work on the one-stop package shop. Its been big time saver.

Thanks alot and keep up the nice work on sunfreeware.com.

Thanks Steve, I didn't know that. BTW, I want to thank you for running that nice Solaris S/W site. I have used it often, and it is the best source I have ever seen.

Matter of fact, I am actually trying to install *your* GCC package now.

Excellent site! Very helpful! You've gotten my IPX much closer to what I want it to be.

Thanks and keep up the excellent work.

Excellent archive, Steve -- this gave me enough confidence to buy a SPARCstation 5.

Thanks ...

The Solaris freeware site is great!

I have a copy of your "Creating pkgadd Software Packages under Solaris 2.5". It has been extremely helpful. I am a release engineer, and have been given the task of using pkgadd, pkginfo, pkgmk, etc., to produce an installation package for our application on Solaris 2.5. I am not a unix programmer or sys admin. I have printed off the man pages as you suggested.

thank you for your wonderful site. We were caught between a rock and a hard spot with Sun's latest idea of ways to reduce costs (i.e. unbundle the abridged C compiler) and your site saved the day. Thanks!

P.S. Great site !.

Your site's a life saver. I've installed a number of the packages for Solaris. Great work!

THANKS for your Solaris 2.5 freeware page - it's just about saved my sanity!

First I want to thank you for all that time and dedication to make those useful programs for all the Solaris 2.x users. Great job!!!

Thank you so much!

This e-mail is long overdue. I really appreciated the quick response, I'm sorry I didn't do the same. What you provided was a big help in getting this project off to a good start. Thanks again.

Thanks for compiling the 2.6 stuff and making it install in /usr/local. I recently inherited a Classic and compiling gcc, etc would have been painfully slow. I prefer installing software off the net in /usr/local.

thanks a lot for your prompt response!

regards!

I found the x86 site.

You and your colleagues have really provided the user community with a great asset in the Free ware library. You all deserve kudos!

Thanks.

Thanks for the great site. I've used it several times and have been very pleased.

I find smc.vnet.net a very useful archive for people like me who need to install Solaris stuff.

Great page. It's been very useful to me.

I wouldn't have been able to get my home SPARC working without you!

Your web is very helpful for me to reconstruct our Station 5 in the lab. Thank you very much for your effort.

"Reports from users indicate that anything below 2.7.2.3 without the patches installed in this version and without fixincludes run in the proper way will not compile some programs."

Indeed! Your site saved me a lot of time.

Just wanted to let you know. Thanks!

Hi and thank you for a very nice and useful site!

First let me say "Thanks!" for your excellent site. It's been really useful to us here.

Steve, thanks a lot!

I think your site is great! It's nice to be able to get all of the most popular packages for different reasons at one place. Keep up the good work!

Once again, thank you for your efforts to make so much software easily available to others.

The use of this stuff in packaged format really does tip the balance when I decide whether to use something like Linux, or Solaris for an 'easy install'.

Great site you have. Looks good too.

Thanks!

Your site and project is really helping.

Finding your archive some time ago, was like X-mas and Easter together.

Thanx for all the work u have done..........

By the way thank you very much and "Merry Xmas to you"

By the way, I recommend your work at URL:
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.unix.misc/unix_binaries.html.

First, thanks for running your precompiled freeware for SPARC webpage, its very helpful.

Move the eyes on http://sunfreeware.com. On this site there are many useful free-software program, ready-to-run.

Just wanted to say thanks for going through the trouble of compiling everything for Solaris.

I was just out visiting you site with Solaris 2.5 freeware (good site by the way). Much appreciated! Thanks.

I saw your manual pages for making packages. They are really good.

Thanks for the outstanding site and all your efforts.

Great site, Keep up the good work!

It was a very good ideas to provide some SunBinaries on the internet - our Sun came without any compiler at all....

Thanks for preparing these. I have picked up perl, top and traceroute (so far) and they work fine on my 2.5.1 machines.

T H A N K S ! ! !

This worked great! I've been searching for a precompiled version of this for some time now. I've bookmarked both your page and this one. Keep up the good work.

I just thought I should drop you a quick email to say thank-you very much to all the people who made all those Solaris ports that you have published on your web site. The packages have been very useful to our site.

Keep up the good work!

THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO VERRRRRY MUCH!!!!!

I am not a unix wizard, nor am I moron .... BUT, there are SOME things that as I spoke with people who are more skilled at unix, more specificly Solaris, there are some things that are it seems to me are just known. For example what sym links should be where, what libs should be where, etc.etc.etc... I could not find anything that told me what should be linked with what, or what compilers were needed to compile xyz. That was of course until I stumbled upon your site. Whats this I say? ...Already compiled Binaries of my favorite (ok so not ALL of my favs, but hey :) ... Programs, are already compiled and READY TO GO!.... WOWHO!.... 30 Megs, and more then one drive space full message on the console latter, I am a happy person :) ........

There are some quirks I ran into, for example your Xftp pkg does not do the right sym links to a lib, then again I don't have all the links down pat :( ..... I did finally run into your faq (don't ask :) ..... via another web page!.... Sure enough, it pointed out a few more paths I needed, and some other interesting things :) .......

Hmm... must find a guide... HINT HINT :)

Yeeeeee!!!!!! Thanks a million Steve!

*Scratching head and wondering how you got past that seemingly insoluable snprintf compile issue*

Two more things while I've got you on the line, so to speak...

1) smc.vnet.net is the coolest site to come down the pike since the Irish invented beer. You (and your assistants, if there are any) are positively wonderful and deserve all the kudos Sun can muster!

2) If you're going to be at the River Center in San Antonio for the Usenix security gig, you've got a few beers (or pizzas) coming on my tab.

A long time fan of smc.vnet.net and its' Wizards...

Thank you for your nice site. It's very useful and efficient to download and install packages !

I am glad to know there are so many packages for Solaris on your Web Site. I am here to say thanks to you. It's very helpful to me!!

I've also installed samba from your excellent collection with no problems at all!

Thanks so much for your help,, allowing me to bounce ideas of you.

Just stumbled across your useful Solaris freeware site - keep the effort going !

First, I'd like to extend my thanks for the Solaris Freeware project. It has saved me a lot of time and effort that I otherwise spend tweaking source code, editing Makefiles, compiling, installing, and so on. I wish this had been available when I was building gcc! Purists may turn their noses up at using a binary package rather than building from source, but perhaps purists have more time than I do.

One of the things we use here is your port of Samba. Samba's a wonderful thing, and has made my users mighty happy. They don't know that it is Samba making them happy, and thus I get the credit for it, which is fine.

Thanks for your role in SunSITE is appropriate as well.

Thanks!

Best regards and thanks for a wonderful (timesaving) site!

Great site you have got there!

Thank you very much for your help!!!

great, thanks!

Just a quick mail to say that your site saved me a lot of headaches. Have recently been plunged into the world of Solaris 2.6 with an Ultra 30 Creator. It's quite a bit different from what I'm used to and the absence of a compiler completely threw me! Thank the Lord for your gcc binaries.

First off, great job and thanks for saving me so much time.

Thanks for the Sun packages. I am starting from scratch setting upt a web mirror on a Solaris 2.6 machine and I have used gzip, perl, emacs(I think xemacs is better :) but I don't have the time to get it now), WUftp, gcc, rcs, & top. I have installed most of these from source & binaries and I think you have saved me a great deal of time. I am not a sys. admin. person so getting back to my "real" work is important to me.

Subject: RE: compile sendmail

Thank you very much! It's successful now.

I read your FAQ on the web. It was very interesting for me.

Thank-you for a very robust and productive site for Sun software.

Thank-you very much.

Your Solaris software sites are great! Now I don't have to use vi anymore! Thank you!

First off I wanted to just say thanks for hosting a number of applications and making it painfully simple to add! It's made my job as a struggling sys-admin much, much easier.

We are a scientific group at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Your work porting Gnu software to Solaris is invaluable for us.

I just came across your site tonight and was very impressed - lots of good stuff and useful links.

first, I'd like to say just HOW MUCH I LOVE your binaries... I am the proud admin of a Sun Ultra1 running 2.6.

I have installed some of your other stuff, and it works just fine!

cool ! thank you very much steve !

Just wanted to say thanks for a great web server.

Thank you so very incredibly much for your wonderfuly packaged utilities for Solaris. The have made my life easier and left me more time to go home to play with my one-year-old daughter, who has just discovered how to open doors.

Had I even thought that I might trouble you with a request, I would have asked for packages built for /usr/local instead of /opt, and they're already here!

Thanks for your pointer to your site which was really helpful. Download, install all over in 10 mins - WOW.

Thanks again for your assistance with a Solaris newbie. I really appreciate you letting me bend your ear for a while. :^>

Thanks a bunch for the project and keep up the good work!

Thanks Steve.

Hi, I've found your site very useful, your hard work has made my life easier.

Thank you for a job well done. I use a few of packages and they are great.

Thank you very much! The non gunzipped was the problem. I knew it had to be something simple or foolish. Thank you for your help. I and my boss(es) appreciate it.

Hey, I like the way the new site looks!

Precompiled GNU gcc for Solaris 2.5.1 Try

http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.5.html

Lots of cool stuff

You can find a step-by-step description about the creation of Solaris packages at:

http://smc.vnet.net/pkgadd.html

Thank you for providing such an excellent service.

I'd just like to say the Sun Package archive that you maintain is greatly appreciated; I'm paid to research, not be a Sun Sys Admin.

Thanks.

I wanted to thank you for your help distributing Solaris freeware on the net. I am glad that you are a central location to find source and packages. I have been able to get older versions of source from nce.sun.ca and be able to look around in the source for the original source site so I can find the newest versions and/or patches.

Thanks a lot for your help in this and I hope to one day have a mirror of your site here at the University.

Your Site is really cool ... As a new administrator of Solaris, I find your site helpful in terms of the softwares I need. I really don't have to compile them...

Thanks for keeping and updating your site. I go to your site (well, the xmission.com mirror) each time I install a new machine.

I wanted to write to express my sincere thanks for your work in porting and maintaining the products of the FSF for users of Solaris 2.5.

By providing your work we were able to configure a Sparc-20 running Solaris in much less time than would have been required otherwise. This is allowing us to spend much more time focusing on what we do well.

Steve, your work is important and greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can be of service to you in the future.

Thank you for your attention and for your so wonderful as useful Solaris 2.6 freeware pages!

BTW! I was just visiting your site for the first time. I found a lot of goodies which I will download... Thanks!

Keep up the good work!

I hope sun pays you a lot for your service, (Solaris packages)

They saved me a great deal of time when installing some new servers for software development.

Steve .. Thanks for all the fine work and product that helps us survive in Sun Land ..

Thanks .. don't know what I would do without a huge bankroll for Sun Soft products .. appreciate all you do .. teach us low-enders and someday we can feed back really useful knowledge ..

BTW, this is a good web page. Keep up the good work.

I really appreciate the time that you took to package-ize this stuff-- we hardly use our UNIX box, and haven't taken the time to install GCC and get it running, so your site really helps us get tools on there when we find we need one...

An EXCELLENT site. Great work !

Excellent site, it saves me a lot of time and grief, especially being able to pkgadd gcc2.7.2 on Solaris 2.6 x86 (which has no native C compiler).

Cheers Steve, keep it going.

Good Show !! Great job guys. I find this site very useful.

I think the work you and your colleagues have done is really great. Having used a number of packages, without which our project would not have been completed.

We have used bash, gcc, sed and perl. My particular favorite is perl which I have used to write a number of system routines and web front ends with which to control/configure my servers remotely (eg create email accounts on new domains having set up the dns automatically on receipt of message from internic/nominet)

first I would like to thank you for the uncountable hours I saved by using your pre-compiled packages for some standard-applications for my users. I even adapted myself to a binary /opt concept, ehich fits into my existing concept.

Thank you for all the work.

Not to bother you but I just wanted to thank you profusely for your site. It's wonderful! I had pine and popper running on my new server in 10 minutes. You deserve a big box of McDonald's Cookies.

Congratulations for Solaris 2.5 Freeware for SPARC Home Page ! It's very useful for software designer and development.

I am a contractor and every time I get to a new site you gets hits from me as I download your packages to quickly solve long standing problems. They think I am genius. Despite how much I appreciate the praise, I straighten them out and explain it's this site that deserve the credit.

First of all, what a nice web site you have gathered for Solaris software! I am a new Solaris developer and it was a real find to tap into your site!!!

This is a very helpful site. My hearty thanks for the time and effort you put in to it.

Thanks for the detailed, easy to use site and the wonderful programs. I found the two programs(top and traceroute) that Sun seems to have overlooked, but we use all the time. They installed easily and worked without a hitch. Keep up the great work.

Thank you Steve for the hint, I got it working now!

Very nice site.

Your Solaris page is very useful.

first I want to thank you for the stuff located on http://sunfreeware.com. I am using a lot of this compiled packages which works very well.

Hi! As a novice ad-hoc system administrator at a small remote design center, I have found your Solaris 2.5 Freeware site to be wonderful. I mean WONDERFUL, and we are presently using six or seven of your applications with great success.

Thanks again for the GREAT web site. It has truly been a life-saver.

Just a note from the Sys Admins here to say we use the pre-packaged software for Solaris on your very frequently. Thank you for providing this service.

Thanks for the great site. Keep up the great work.

Your site has been a fantastic resource. One of the best spots for Sun users on the net!

Wonderful SunFreeware.com website!

Congratulations for maintaining such an excellent site.

I just would like to thank you, for having a site like this. I makes learning UNIX alot easier... and getting stuff even better. Very nice webpage

Thank You AGAIN~!!!

Nice Job!!!!! It sure make my job easier.

Keep up the good work.

I love your site.

In your site you say you would like to know how the software you make is been used, and how it helps other projects. well, I'm a independent software consultant in south of Brazil, and I'm working as a project manager in a large software project to our local telephone company. The general goal of this project is to create a monitoring system, to detect and help to identify any problem on the communication network.

Among several compilers and tools, we select GNU's gcc and gdb as the major C++ compiler, and ORACLE's database and ProC pre-compiler for data storage. We are using yours gcc version 2.7.2. and gdb version 4.15.1. Some support programs like texinfo, gzip, etc, are also in use. The monitoring module is already done, and in production for several months now, with very good results. The second major module, that is responsible for monitoring the quality of phone calls is in prototype phase.

We use your version of FSF's programs every day, and really enjoy it, thank you.

And keep the excellent work.

Your shareware page is just great.

And many many thanx for the service!!!

First off, I want to thank you for doing all the work to make such a great site. I'm sure lots of people like me really appreciate it.

Thank you very much for your efforts on this site. Having one place to start is a wonderful idea. I have used your site for years and have been neglectful in not saying thank you before this.

Your efforts are appreciated.

Thanks Steve, you saved the day.

Great site....

Thanks for a great site!!!

I have downloaded many packages from you site to use in my job... Having them in pkgadd format make it very simple to install and get these tools working quickly. It has saved me much effort.

Thanks for performing an important service.

Keep up the good work on the page. Great resource!

I don't know how often you get thanked, but it probably isn't enough. The sunfreeware I get from your site each time Sun puts out a new version of Solaris is a life (ie, job) saver. If I didn't have a working copy of gcc and top running as soon as I was told to upgrade to the latest Solaris OS, I'd be hurting. But, over the last two years you've had them when I needed them.

THANK YOU!

PS: I don't know who pays you to keep guys like me successful, but thanks to them, too.

i love the site, it has saved me a *few* times. Keep up the good work.

This url helped me a lot for downloading utils for Solaris 2.5.

I just wanted to say "Thank You" for maintaining a great site.

Consider this to be a highly complimentary email message about how the project has helped me. :-)

I regularly grab packages for 2.5.1 & 2.6 and roll them out to production systems. Main packages are: lsof, top, tcsh, traceroute, less, gzip - these are the ones which tend to go "everywhere". Other misc packages too, of course (Ghostscript, Samba, I could go on & on... :-).

Getting GCC in package stream format is a MAJOR boon.

I want to thank you & the others involved with the building of the 2.5 & 2.6 packages for the various software available on the smc.vnet.net sites.

Thanks again for all the work. There are many out here in Solaris user land that appreciate it.

Thanks for putting these programs on your page. I have downloaded and use alot of the programs listed.

Thank you so much for your valuable information. I think it will save me a lot of frustrations.

I just want to thank you again and again...

I've downloaded a couple of the freeware apps on your site, and the service you provide is great -- a real time saver for me to get going in my task of porting, tuning, parallelizing, and benchmarking customer codes.

I appreciate you having such a useful site as the Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 freeware programs. It saves me the hassle of trying to compile things like gcc (no mean feat). Please keep the program sets coming.

Awesome site!!!!

Having this software ported to Solaris 2.6 and installing as a package is amazing!!! The last time I worked on Solaris and to get tools running was a few years ago. At that time the only option (minus a few programs that were on Sunsite) was to get the source for a GNU program and compile it. What this meant was many wasted hours duplicating work that other had already done. Furthermore, installing wasn't very easy either.

You guys (or just you) have made all of this obsolete. Have world class software on Solaris is now as easy as NT!!!!

Love your web site, I think there should be more around.

This is a good site which help out the likes of myself who always has problems getting thing to compile and have no one to turn to for help.

Your site is awesome.

Thanks, your site is a real time saver and great resource.

First of all, thank you for your effort in porting so much useful programs on Solaris.

I want to thank you for providing the Solaris software packages at your web site. Without your gcc package I would have been dead in the water for sure!

Thank you! It worked just fine.

First of all, I appreciate what you're doing with the Sun freeware site. Thanks!

I'm sure you get "praise" messages often, but I'd like to add one more to the fray. I downloaded many "essential" add-on utilities for Solaris 2.6 recently, and each and every one installed and ran perfectly. Supporting the defacto "/usr/local" directory as well as "/opt" is a real big plus. I even appreciate your use of Frames on the web site. Again, good job done, and THANK YOU!

Great site!! I find it very useful...

Again, many thanks for the best site on the net!

Subject: Thanks again

The subject says it all...

Thanks for your invaluable contributions to the Sun Solaris community by providing the Sun Freeware pre-compiled and source utilities. The Sunfreeware versions of gzip, top, ghostscript and ghostview have been welcome additions to our systems.

Thank you for all your efforts to provide this freeware. I am especially grateful that you provide gcc binaries, although I could compile gcc using a "try and buy" compiler :-)

These freeware pages are extremely useful and I greatly appreciate all the effort put into them.

Again, many thanks!

Merci ;

Et a bientot !

i love this site!!!!!

You have done an outstanding job pulling all of this together. I've already bookmarked your site for future reference.

First I'd like to say many thanks for providing this site to the world. It has been very useful over the past months!

Thanks for all the work you are doing. It is really nice to have these packages available.

Thanks for the great site, by the way. The time and effort is certainly appreciated.

enjoy your site

Not to fawn, but I find this site extremely useful. I am a sysadmin, having used Solaris at work and at home for the past couple years. Whenever I set up a new machine, I go straight to this site to get everything I need to be able to actually *use* the new machine.

Thanks again for setting this up!

First of all: a great site! It is an invaluable source of software for my work.

Steve, thanks for your archive. It is a great place to find new and updated software.

Great Site! I downloaded traceroute from the site on the Sunsolve info doc and couldn't get it to build correctly. I then found your site and was able to download and pkgadd it in a few minutes and come up running!

> I've been getting a Sun Ultra (Solaris 2.6) running > and have very much enjoyed the easy-to-use setup of the > Sun Site freeware.

I like your selection of Sun freeware on your site, especially the 2.6 section. I consult to many Sun owners who need make their system an Internet server, and I have often found your site, which includes the real key piece (gcc/g++), extremely useful.

Thank you so much for your service.

Many thanks again !
I was visiting the web site you advised and I could find all I am needing.
You were really so helpful, I am very grateful.

First of all, thanks for maintaining the site. It's very useful.

P.S. Nice site!

I think your site is great. Obviously you and all you minion are Solaris gods and should receive gifts of rare jewels and gold on a regular basis.

Thanks again for the help, and the service you provide.

Great site! I've been looking for something just like this & I don't know why it took soooo long to find it!

Thanks for the great webpage. Been really useful.

Thank you for the great page! It has made my life a lot easier.

Many, many thanks!

just checked out your site - great stuff !! (you dont know what its like sometimes, being at the other end of the globe) .. at least with the internet information & knowledge is freely at hand, mainly to the hard work of guys like you.

I wish there was something I could donate back, but Im not good enough on SunOs yet - we're running what INFORMIX says is one of the the largest Sun-based data-warehouses in the S/Hemisphere, on a Sun e4000 8-way symmetric processor, with 1GB disk cache, 2 GB main ram, and buckets of DASD !!!

anyway, good work, keep it up (schmucks like me need people like you)

First, let me say that I am very appreciative of your package archive, it has helped me build out my machines quickly and painlessly more times than I care to count.

btw, love what you are doing.

Everything worked, no problems. Thanks

THANKS!!

ThankX!

Your site was very useful indeed - having bought a SPARCstation 2 with Solaris on it, software was a problem because there was no compiler initially (as well as it being horribly slow).

As a new user of Solaris (previously NT/95) I was looking for some tools etc. and your site was the first and only site I have needed so far. best regards and warm wishes,

Thanx a lot !!

Thanks for your superb job! Now everything's going fine. If you ever need something from Brasil, just call!

You have a great web site for Solaris fellas. Keep it up!

Thanks very much for the help and the cool site.

Great site! I use it a lot especially because i am not too familiar with compiling on unix machines...

Thanks!

This (and the faq) got me up and running. The listing of sun pkg's needed was especially helpful.

Great site! Love it. Makes life much easier to get the latest files and utilities.

How do you manage to find the time to maintain such a rich resource for sun people? It's a very impressive sight.

SunFreeware Fan

Great Site!

I just found out about this sunfreeware.com from SunServer magazine. I like it! Keep up the good work.

I've found your site quite useful. I've been using packages from your site from your site for quite some time. It is really very convenient to have ready-made packages which can be installed on the fly.

Keep up the great work.

I've been using your site for quite some time now. The precompiled packages are a real time saver. You're providing an awesome resource to the Internet community with your site.

Thank you very much!

Thanks!!!

Your 2.6 packages are going to save me days of work.

Thanks for all of your good work.

That's dated, now. Since last night, the amazing Steve Christensen has updated URL: http://sunfreeware.com to include 4.33 of lsof.

Recently I installed your excellent Bash 2.00 package and I love it!

Thanks for your great site!

At first please accept my congratulations for keeping the wonderful site www.sunfreeware.com.

Great site! I use it a lot especially because I am not too familiar with compiling on unix machines...

The sunfreeware site has been an incredible blessing for me. Today I have downloaded a number of packages: tcsh,gcc,gzip,gdb and rcs. All worked wonderfully.

Damn fine work.

I have been a fan of your web site for at least a year now. It is the best thing that has happened to SUN.

a truly beautiful web site! thanks...

Thanks alot.

First of all, great site. Thanks a lot !!!!!!!

Your site rules!!!!!

Thought I would drop you a line and thank you for your work in Solaris Freeware. I for one appreciate it, and I know many others that do as well.

Steve,
Yes! It works!!
I don't know how to say many thanks,
Thanks for your kindness, you are so great!!
Thanks again!!

Good job

Just want to let you know I really like your work.

Many thanks Steve !

Super! Can't wait. Enjoyed your site, BTW. Impressive resume! :)

You have provided a very good service for Solaris users who need the freeware.

Love the look of your web site.

Your site has been of great help. I like the idea of providing two varieties of packages that gives the installer a choice of installing in /usr/local or /opt/foo. I was wondering if you are going to make

First a word of thanks; I've been getting a lot of use out of the Solaris freeware site. Thanks for all the work on it!

Thanks from China.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks for your time, I know you are quite busy to help an old man... <:-)

Just a quick note to say how much I appreciated finding your ftp site with package. Actually finding a site where i can download this stuff and install so easily is such a relief, i can save hours of work.

Many thanks! Your suggestions worked. I'll check the flag options for gcc more carefully, and maybe someday learn how to write in c! I greatly appreciate your time.

Just upgraded one of my workstations and my server to Sol2.6 - thank you for providing a fantastic resource!!! Saved me hours and hours of work.

I have now a base installation consisting of your packages that can be applied to any of my machines - from scratch to a fully working workstation/server now takes around 1 to 2 hours!! Including time to install Solaris!!

well done and keep up the good work!

Thanks Steve!!

It works perfectly fine...

Firstly congratulations on a great web site, I have found it very useful.

Thanks a lot, it works fine.

just visited your smc.vnet.net site, and i sure do think it's a great site for budding sysads, programmers and the like... been using it before and i still want to try out all the other stuffs...

thanks a lot and keep up the good work! more power to SUN!!!

Just a quick note regarding your GREAT site. The availability of tools like Unzip, GCC, etc. sure makes my life a lot easier. Keep up the great work! I'll be sure to spread the word to all my associates.

I have used your page tremendously lately, and I have to admit it's been a great help. I've recently reloaded one of my Sun Sparc10s and have had little software support.

Thanks a lot for your work preparing the Solaris pkgs on Sunsite. They came in especially useful here when I had to set up a couple of Sun machines to be used at a conference.

PS the site is great.

I just wanted to say this site has been a life saver and time saver more than. I really appreciate the efforts that you and your support have put into creating such a useful repository Solaris programs. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.

First of all, let me say how much I appreciate your effort in compiling freeware for the Solaris platforms.

First let me thank you for an excellent service, providing us less experienced administrators a quick and easy way to quiet users who want things done yesterday.

Thanks again for all the great utilities!!

Let me begin with a THANK YOU for providing so many prebuild packages as they had save me a great deal of time being able to use these utilities immediately.

excellent job you guys are doing with this. Do you accept contributed packages as part of the project? I'm setting up a new machine from scratch and trying to use packages to bundle all the bits I install from GNU et al.

I just discovered the Solaris Freeware site and think it is wonderful and a huge service to Solaris owners who usually get the shaft when it comes to software availability. Excellent work!

I installed gcc 2.8.1 on U2/Sol2.6. The install went well (not that it was meant to be complicated - for that I thank you).

Steve!!! You're my HERO!!! Thanks. it worked!!!! I can go home now!!!!

You certainly gonna get a place in the big cyber-heaven up there with this site! This is my first stop if I look for freeware for the Sun's here at the office. Keep up the excellent work and keep those goodies coming.

I am new sysadmin. Your site is very helpful for me to maintain our system.

That worked great. By the way. I have found your site veryyyyy useful. Thank you for all of your hard work. If you ever need someone to test please feel free to get in contact with me.

I thank you for your time and dedication!

The new site is wonderfull! I'm looking for expect-5.25 and I found it here. Super!

I'd just like to say thanks for all the effort you have put into your site and packages.

I've had your URL bookmarked for years and feel terrible I've taken so long to let you know how much I appreciate it.

I love the site. I have found a number of packages to be very useful at work on SPARC machines, and at home on my Intel box.

Greatly appreciate your SunFreeware site efforts. The page design is very VERY effective.

You've a great site!

Nice job on the site -- makes life a lot easier.

Just to say great site. Keep up the good works.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you very much!!!!

It is cool to have a person like you to help us!!!

I am a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly Price Waterhouse before our merger with Coopers & Lybrand). One of the most helpful resources in getting our attack and penetration laboratory up to speed in our New England office was the http://www.sunfreeware.com/ site.

I appreciate your maintenance of the site.

I just found that Freeware Site on the net. A great thing!

Thanks Steve, that was the problem.

Thank you very much!

I solved my problem - thanks to your advice. Have a nice day.

Thanks,

Coffee paid for you in NY.

And a fine site it is, too! You have done an outstanding job with that site, and you are performing an invaluable service for Sun sysadms everywhere! Thank you!

Subject: remerciements

synthetique , precis , un site indispensable !
Merci Sir (:-) Christensen.
a french fan.

Your suggestion "-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE" worked.
Thanks

Many thanks for the great job you do in maintaining such a site for SPARC/Solaris users.

I've looked and looked through the Sun site in the past and never seen this software collection. This time I stumbled upon it by accident (through www.hotrod.com). YEAH!!!

> Start at http://sunfreeware.com/pkgadd.html and the links therein.

Groovy...exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks!

This site has saved me countless hours of pain and torment. Before I found out about it, I had spent days trying to figure out how to configure some of my machines, esp. those with nothing on them and no access to a tape drive, etc.

Thanks to you I was able to download what I needed, burn a CD cart it out to the site and wala instant developers station, thanks.

Kudos: This site has helped me tremendously. It is great to have one site to check for all the utilities I need. Having all the software in packages, and for 2.5 and 2.6, makes it incredibly easy to rollout the newest version of to each box.

About your 2.6 packages I prefer them because you use the /usr/local directory By using this directory it's far easier to make a network installation (ie: use NFS to share /usr/local between machines) because it's more difficult to do that with /opt

Thanks for maintaining this good site.

This is really a very very useful site.

hee! the new site looks great. and frames that actually /work/!
woo! thanks for all the hard work.

I found your site very useful.

Looks like a very nice site! I'm glad it's there and I think that it will be a very useful site to a lot of people.

Steve, I love the site.

Thanks for your page of precompiled binaries for Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 systems. This solves a lot of our problems to find suitable compiling environment for those platforms (we currently have compiling environment only for 2.6, but on some projects have 2.5 platform...)

And the 2. thing. Why everyone needs to compile the software from the source, if there is a reliable source of precompiled binaries on the net. That saves a lot of time for everyone else, and makes the platform more attractive to the users.

I'd like to express my satisfaction with the web site and the software you have made available there.

Thanx and keep up the good work.

Subject: Re: Creating packages?
Can someone please point me to some docs on creating "packages"?

Check out

http://www.sunfreeware.com

Steven Christensen has a very good writeup on creating packages.

Awesome! Just what I needed. Thanks, I don't do much Solaris stuff, so I had no idea where to look.

Thanks for your help, Steve. We got it working. I smacked my forehead and exclaimed "D'oh!" when you said the answer was in your FAQ. Sorry about that.

The job you have undertaken is a large one and changes constantly. Keep up the work.

Go to:

http://smc.vnet.net/pkgadd.html

It helped me a lot.

Pass along a sincere "Thanks for making this possible!" to..... whoever pushed for, and also made the software available to the masses.

THANKS for putting Gimp on your site!

Your notes on how to run pkgadd were great. The man page for pkgadd is a little misleading.

Fantastic site!

This site is great!

I just installed 2.6 on a SparcStation 20, then Apache 1.3.1 (as a pre-compiled binary from Steve Christensen's fabulous site, http://smc.vnet.com/Solaris_2.6.html - well worth checking out for all the other packages - as in pkgadd format!), and it's running fine...

Your material on creating pkgadd software Packages under Solaris 2.5 is EXCELLENT. The instructions are very crisp and easy to follow. I have been able to create and install packages, following the instructions, without any trouble! Thanks once again.

You've done a fantastic job!

I have installed your Solaris 2.6 packages and they seem to work pretty well.

Once Again: Great Job!!

Thanks very much for your tremendously important site of binary packages for Solaris!!!

THANKS AGAIN FOR A WONDERFUL SITE!!!

I'd like to first thank you for keeping up a site that I use quite often, it makes it much easier for Sys Admins like to to find software, so if noone else has said it, Thanks!

Thanks again for your great site ... there is no way I could have built the entire gimp distribution and associated libraries.

You were right. Everything is working wonderfully now. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for a great site.

The pkgadd info was timely as I had a customer asking that question.

Ummm, I put in gcc 281 yesterday using the /opt install from the Solaris Freeware site at http://smc.vnet.net/Solaris_2.6.html

downloaded it, did pkagadd -d gcc-2.8.1-opt and it installed fine, and worked straight off.

Hi, just read about SUN's push for participants in Solaris software development and testing program in the 17 August issue of Internet Week. I checked out the Sunfreeware.com site and wow, I didn't know all that existed.

The sunfreeware.com site made it practical for me to use Solaris here without looking bad because I needed to spend a ton of time compiling stuff from sources. (Not to mention the pain of bootstrapping a gcc).

Thanks a million.

Thanks a lot for supplying the premade software. I'd have been up a creek without you since I have no other compiler on my new box. Now that I know you're there, I'll definitely be back!

I'm a telecommuter and was given a Sparc with practically no software, not even gzip or gcc. I found your site today and can't believe my good luck!! Many, many thanks,

I am a big fan on your sunfreeware site.

It's a small world. I hit your free software site regularly, and point all of the people I introduce to Solaris to your page.

Hey, I was just checking out that Freeware for Solaris site... and, wow, it got me really excited. ;)

I've been running all Linux systems here for the past year or so... just yesterday someone told me about the Solaris offer. So, well, I signed up, and it's on its way. I intend to use the system for more-or-less "educational" purposes... I'm doing a large project on "unix networking" (loads of fun). I know it would greatly annoy my "linux" friends, but I'm now tending to switching everything I have to a different system. Heh, I've vowed never again to buy an intel based system (saving up for an ultra5). Well, anyway... I really just need one thing... and that is a nice office suite. Is there a free (heh) or "economic" solution for Solaris (don't say TeX, hehe)? Also, since I'll be in the process of learning a new system, could you recommend any books or sources of info for a new Solaris user? Oh, that reminds me... is there some form of linux binary emulation (just curious)? Ok, well, thanks... and I hope to drop by and make use of all those ports... maybe do some of my own ;) Thanks again!

First of all your page is really great. I'm not the hacker and would have a hard time compiling all the stuff myself. Thanks a lot

Thank You Very Much

I am a professional programmer rooted in C/C++ on Solaris platforms. I just wanted to say thank you for putting so much work into such a fine site (Sunfreeware.com). It certainly makes my "hobby-programming" at home much easier.

Hello Steve! I love your Solaris Freeware site. Wonderful!!

Got it! Thanks.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for the site -- it's great.

Many thanks again. (Tail between my legs) :}

PS. I am thrilled to have found this site, appreciative of your work, and amazed at the quick response.

First of all GREAT site ..

This site is very good and very useful for me. Keep the good spirit and keep upto date.

I think you Solaris freeware page is wonderful.

Thanks to people like you, people like us can have all the tools we need, FREE.

Excellent, wonderful and very useful web site......Good job.

Thank you for your homepages.

First of all, I really appreciate the work you have been doing with GNU, especially the gcc and emacs packages. Using the FAQs, I finally got a C compiler that finds all the libraries and includes. Our C expert" had to stop whining that "the compiler doesn't work, it sucks".

Tell your manager that your efforts with the GNU packages at Sunfreeware.com make Sun look very good to its Hadco Derry customers.

first, thanks for the great site! I'm a consultant and, as such, find myself floating around more often than most between workstations. Whenever I have to begin work on a new machine, I first go to sunfreeware.com to get the 'essentials'. Who has time to rebuild everything from scratch nowadays?

I appreciate your help.

Thank you very much for your help!!

You can download top utility from http://sunfreeware.com/. It'a a good one.....

Thanks for the efforts ... it makes my life much easier!

Thank you very much for putting me on this route.

By the way, sunfreeware.com has saved my life a couple of times already...

Having just directed another budding new sysadmin to your Sunfreeware site, The site is in fact an incredible resource! I now begin almost all responses to "i can't seem to compile X" emails with "checkout out smc.vnet.net"

Thank you, its a wonderful project.

Just a word to say that your Sun project is very helpful for me.

This is a great site by the way. If there someone at Sun I can send feedback to about how useful these packages are, let me know.

Just wanted to say the Sun Freeware site is super!! I look to it first when one of our engineers asks for a new bit ot software.

Thanks Steve. I appreciate the info.

Thanks, it works.

thanks..

Once again, thank you for all the good work and continued success.

Your site is a valuable asset.

I have quietly thanked whomever (God, Buddha, etc. - your pick) for your WONDERFUL web site every time I have accessed it over the last 2-3 years (extremely frequently). It is the most invaluable source of software when installing a new sun workstation I have ever come across and makes what used to be a long and laborious task almost fun.

I have really enjoyed having your Sun Freeware site available during my constant building and breaking of Sun systems.

Thanks very much for your help. You have saved me some valuable time.

Thanks for your reply. This helps alot.

Steve you've got a great thing going here. The packaging is the topping on the cake because with that, admins feel comfortable putting software in, because they know they can get it out as well. Please continue the efforts.

Thanks for the help. It turned out after looking at what installed on my new system I didn't have the SUNWhea files. It never occurred to me that it wasn't part of the standard install. After I installed that all the compilers have been running perfectly.

Thanks for this site. It is setup in a nice fashion to find everything I need.

Thanks a bundle.

I found the programs, and I installed on our system. They work fine. Thanks for your help.

BTW. LOVE the site! It's my first stop for Solaris software.

Thanks for your help.

Since I have my new job (technical sales for sun projects in my company), I've been contacting the sunfreeware site on a regular basis. I want to start by thanking you for the time and efforts you spend maintaining it, it's one of the most useful sites I have ever seen.

Thanks for the great web site!!

Thanks so much for having this site. I just got a little Ultra 5 for home and needed some good tools. Trying to build the GNU stuff yourself is difficult. I know here at the lab we have a guy who builds these things full time. So thanks for making it so easy.

Thanks very much for your kind notice. I can find the file of unzipped format. Thanks again !!

Firstly, congratulations on the excellent sunfreeware.com site, I wish this was around about five years ago!

Thank you very much for your help.

I have successfully downloaded, installed the gzip and top utilities. They run great on our system now.

Thank you again.

Have you checked out the pre-compiled packages for Solaris (SPARC and x86) at http://www.sunfreeware.com ? They also have pre-compiled packages of gcc (both platforms). Unless you need some special settings for Perl this will work fine. I have installed both on 30 servers (SPARC and x86) and have not had one complaint from Software Engineers yet.

My $0.02

I think your site is wonderful.

By the way, this site is a very good idea.

Have you tried to download the 2.5.1 packages from sunfreeware.com? They are much easier to install and are more recent versions - all pre-compiled. Once installed and the correct paths set up, it works like a charm. Then you can compile all the other GNU software.

Thanks for the site (and the GIMP)! Very useful.

I've downloaded a lot of precompiled stuff from your site, and am very thankful!

Thanks for your efforts in making a one stop shop for valuable Solaris tools. It has been extremely helpful.

Thanks. I really appreciate this.

Thank you for your response!

Finally I installed gcc-2.8.1-local... and it works very well!!!

Your site is very useful!

They must have had your site in mind when they coined the term "added value". Thanks to you, it's now possible to set up a free development environment in a matter of an hour or two, and that includes the download time on a slow modem. It's services like this that make users flock to an operating system. I don't know what your deal is with Sun, but they should finance 100% of your site and throw in a bonus.

I have to say that your instruction over the web about how to creating a Software Package under Solaris 2.5 are VERY useful and simple for a novice like me. As a result, I were able to create a package myself. I felt great having read your page.

Thanks for putting together an extremely useful and well presented site.

http://www.sunfreeware.com is a GREAT resource! It allowed me for the most part to combine the best of the Solaris world and the best of the GNU/Linux/Open Source world. I LOVE my Sun now!

Thanks for maintaining such a great site!

First of all let me tell you that your site is very well done.

I just found your web site after reading about it on the CNN computing pages. It seems to be really a huge repository for everything SOLARIS!!

Thanks for a great site. These packages are a _big_ help.

Great Site!

Have always thought your site was great.

The sunfreeware site is great! I have been visiting so many times.

Steve, thank you for your great "Freeware for Solaris" site.

Thanks a lot for your very useful site. Ciao

I just visited sunfreeware.com and downloaded some tools. Most useful site this year!

Thanks a lot!

Keep up the great work! We really appreciate your efforts.

Thanks for a great resource to use and to point people to.

You guys are doing a great great job. I really appreciate what you are doing.

I would like to offer my thanks for providing your freeware site, I have installed GCC and libraries and am very happy with the result. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

I am a contractor working in London who for the nth time has been given the task of setting up a Sun box. As always there is no compiler license ("you mean it comes without a compiler?"), no useful utilities like top and a bunch of perl programmers who are waiting to use the machine.

How cool do I look when everything gets going within an hour? Many thanks - if you ever come to this cold and wet part of the world I can offer you a pint.

I have used your freeware site with great happiness and joy. It makes it soo much easier to set up a small Sparc system.

Thank you very much for the fabulous site! Because it is.

I'd also like to say how appreciative we are of your efforts. we are a small company and the cost of commercial software now is very high. because of what you are doing, we can put our sun box to better use.

More power to you,

It has helped me a great deal, thank you very much for maintaining such a site.

You've saved the day again. :) thank you very much.

Thank you again for your great help, you have no idea how much you've helped us. :)

Subject: Super-duper web site...

Excellent site... A complete lifesaver!!!! ("Thank you!!" * 1000000)

Keep up the great work!

Donations for maintenance can be mailed where??

For a biologist doubling as a Solaris workstation sys admin, your packages are a godsend! Thanks.

It's a big help for me and my SUN with your already compiled files at sunfreeware.com.

I work at Sun in the field as an SE and find this site *indispensable* for finding all Solaris binaries/freeware that are impossible to carry with me.

I did get all of the packages to install properly, including the original download. Thanks for your courteous and prompt replys. When our paths cross, I'll buy you a beer, or if you need the kind of Internet access which we provide I'll waive your signup fees.

Thank you for responding so quickly. Sorry about the confusion with Solaris7. Please keep up the great work with Solaris. I am a system administrator who relies heavily on your great services.

Thanks again for the info,

WOW.... I am IMPRESSED with the fast reply.... THANKS :))))

1000 times thanks :))))

Thank you for responding so quickly. Sorry about the confusion with Solaris7. Please keep up the great work with Solaris. I am a system administrator who relies heavily on your great services.

I think you run a great site and I will be using it a lot in the coming months.

This is a terrific service!

I just found out about you -- what a huge improvement in the ease of getting free software.

Great web site. Well organized and well documented.

I like the work you do.

I have used many packages from your exceedingly useful site,

Thanks for the Freeware for Solaris site, it is great for people like me who wish to use software rather than spend time working out how to compile it!

Firstly I'd like to congratulate for very useful homepage for Solaris Freeware.

Hey folks, you are really quick as I can see. Now I have no excuses for *not* moving to 2.7.

Thanks!

Thank you so much for running this site. It has worked very well, and saved me lots of time!

IT WORKS !!! THANKS !!! If you come by any chance to Silicon Valley, please give me a call... I owe you at least a lunch :)))

Thanks for putting the site together. Plenty of useful tools.

Subject: RE: great web site

As Garth would say, "Calvin Cooledge!"

Many thanks indeed for the prompt reply.

Your sunfreeware.com site is pretty impressive ! Congratulations on work well done !!!

Thanks for your help and your great site!

First, I'd like to thank you for all your efforts making these packages available. Your main page URL is a button on my browser toolbar.

Consider this a highly complimentary email, an indication of how much the Freeware for Solaris project has helped me. In return,

Thanks for the advice.

Thank you so much for your information.

Thanks for the great work in doing the binaries!

Thanks a lot for your advise!

First of all, great site. Especially since I've gotten Solaris 2.6, and now 7 through the special promotion.

Just a quick email to say thanks for running the Sunfreeware site. We have upgraded the core services of a 30,000 user ISP from Linux to 9 Sun boxes in 4 weeks. We could not have achieved this timescale without your site.

Keep up the good work and thanks again!

If I ask you directly like that is after seeing your incredibly nice and extremely useful website on Solaris and SPARC.

Thanks again for the great site it has most helpful.

Great site - very useful resource.

Your site has been a blessing. Being a beginning UNIX administrator. It's great to find many of the STUFF needed in a PACKAGE ready to install.

Thanks for all the work.

Yet another great job by you and the folks at SUN.

I have just discovered your site. Thank you for saving a lot of redundant work.

First of all, great site. You've got a lot of good stuff there.

Thanks for the help, after re-reading the page for the 37th time, it finally clicked on what I was doing wrong. Keep up the good work with the site.

Brilliant Site! New to Solaris, got Sol7 promotion from sun. Was dismayed at the fact that there was no 'real' development tools such as cc so got the GCC pack from you. Now have a full development system after much pain in the arse with compiling make and binutils, so I'm gonna make some packages now and stick em on a CD for future use!

Thanks a lot for maintaining the extremely useful www.sunfreeware.com sit= e! It has saved me weeks of work over the years and enabled me to do my job bet= ter and more productively.

Very useful site; thanks.

Thanks very much for your patience and persistence.

Just wanted to thank you for the amazing job that you are doing. Every time someone ask me about software for Solaris, I just point them to your site.

Thank you for the excellent sunfreeware.com site. It has been very helpful both at work and at home. It's always THE first site to look at for a software, especially after a fresh Solaris installation; and of course also afterwards to get software upgrades.

First of all I would like to say that this site is one of the most useful sites I've ever seen.

Many thanks for your site which is really helping me as a novice applications administrator!

My Sun reseller pointed me to your page this morning to obtain Perl. I am more than a little excited to see that pre-built Perl is available. Thanks very much for making it available.

Thank you very much for your time and your site! It has proved to be a truly invaluable resource many times over.

Love the site - keep up the good work.

I've downloaded a number of GNU packages from the sunfreeware.com site and they have been nothing but wonderful! Emacs is great, and of course gcc...

It worked!! I can't tell you how grateful I am for your help. I don't know what was wrong with my browser. Thanks so very much for helping me through that issue. The file sizes were exactly as you said. (Of course.) Thanks.

Many thanks Steve.

Just by chance I come to your page. No doubt it's one of the best web pages serving this world nowadays.

Your site is a fabulous one.

Steve...How I love it that you have taken it on to create packages for Solaris!

I really like your effort to provide binaries for Solaris. I am new to Solaris UNIX and am having a hard time getting enough software to get going. Your page has helped immensely.

Your site is a life saver.

You are a good man!!!!

Thanks Steve !!!!

Your SunFreeware site is indeed very helpful to a beginner like me. More power to you and your site.

I have visited this site a few times and picked up a few very useful programs.

First of all, thanks for a wonderful site and a job well done! I just got my copy of Free Solaris 7 for Intel and I kinda like it.

Your site is the best on the web. I am new to Solaris and I want to thank you for the time you have saved me and I hope to one day return the favors to you.

Thanx. Where do you get time for all of it? :-)

I went to www.sunfreeware.com & i really loved the site.

What you do is a lifesaver! Thanks for the work you've done and the work you will do!

I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU! for the web site www.sunfreeware.com. Because I compile all my tools from source, ever since Sun stopped shipping any sort of compiler with their OS it has been a big hassle bootstrapping a new system. Your site is making that a lot easier now.

Many many (innumerable) thanks for providing the Solaris Freeware site.

Thanks much for putting together the website and providing the precompiled packages. They saved me a lot of work--especially gcc. It's tough to bootstrap gcc when your Sun came without even a minimal cc. And without a C compiler...

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for a quick answer >:)

You have a great site. It saved me a lot of time and work.

Thanks. Now It works very well.

Thanx a lot!!I installed the binary & it works just great!!!!

I wanted to thank you for all the work you have done with the sunfreeware.com site. It is very useful for me as I am trying to learn about UNIX.

Yes,it works just fantastic!!!

Thanks a lot once again.

I know where to turn now in case i need another software package!!! :)

Thanks again.

I would like to take a moment to congratulate you on your work on packaging Sun software for the Solaris community. I have been working on Solaris for several years now and have not seen any site comparable to yours. In fact, I have downloaded and used several packages from your site over the years and now am involved in a similar project involving enterprise software packaging for the entire Solaris installed base. Maybe I might turn to you for some pointers/gotchas for this !! Once again - you have done a great job on the Sun Freeware site and I hope it continues to flourish ......

Wow, excellent suggestion! I did install libstdc++-2.8.1.1 but I didn't have /usr/local/lib in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I am terribly sorry to have bothered you with this problem, thanks for your incredibly quick help. If there is anyway I can help you in the future please let me know.

I just wanted to congratulate you on your SunFreeware.com site. It has helped us out here (saved lots of time and hair pulling).

Thanks for soliciting input! Really appreciate your work to package these things - really a big leverage on installation!

You seem to be a busy person!!!

Thanks all for the good works on packaging for the Solaris 2.5, 2.6.

GREAT WEB PAGE!!!

Hi Steve, Thank you very much for your great work. I am very impressed by things you have done and hope you continue to do so.

Like the web site - cool stuff Dude.

I'm fairly new to the UNIX World and your site has made my introduction to UNIX a very easy one.

Thanks a lot for your work and attention. The SUN freeware site is a goldmine I use often.

Thanks for a wonderful site! :-)

I just found your sunfreeware.com site a few days ago, and I totally dig it!

Thank you for your really helpful work. This makes our lives quite easier !!!

Sunfreeware.com is a GREAT service. We have a split between Irix and Solaris boxes that we manage and through your site, the Solaris boxes are up in a few minutes with our needed software. Thanks, much!

Just got my 5th or 6th tool for Solaris x86 2.6 off your site. Thank you.

Most of what we have implemented installs in /usr/local, which is precisely what we want.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the great project - its helped in untold hundreds of situations.

Thanks again, I really appreciate all the help.

This site is excellent. I am now saving considerable time when I upgrade my systems by not having to spend all my cycles re-compiling my favorite stuff. This reduced the time for me to upgrade to Solaris 7 to less than 2 hours. I especially appreciate not having to recompile gcc, perl and other big packages. This allows me to move immediately forward on to new learning and compiling adventures. This is especially important to me now that I am involved in more managerial roles and have less tech time to myself.

Great site, Steve!! Thanks for the help & a great site.

Thanks for making all these packages available. You have saved me from a lot of aggravation.

Your site really kicks ass - keep up the great work!

Thanks for a great service, this site will save many man hours a) in PD Software compilations, b) consolidating key PD Software in one place for Solaris 7, in a most timely manner! congratulations...

Thanks so much for a speedy response!

I wanted to say thanks for maintaining your Solaris resources. It's helped make these beasts into usable machines. In the olden days ftp.uoregon.edu was a great place, but they no longer exist. It took a few cluesticks against my head from friends to find your place, and I'm glad I did.

That did the trick... thanks!

Thank you and your team for the time and effort put towards Solaris Freeware Project.

Thank you for the time you spend on the Solaris Freeware Project. In case no one has told you lately, the project helps a lot of people.

Successful Steve !

Many thanks and happy new year !

Thanks for your hard work in getting these packages ported and put in pkgadd format. You have been a great assist to me in getting a new Intel/Solaris 7 development platform put together.

GNU is great but you are better. Every thing in this world should be HTML based like your site. Easy to Search and download.

I'd like to mention how much I appreciate your site! A most useful resource.

Thanks for a great site !!!!

I love your site.

Thanks for your great work.

Your site has been very helpful to me for setting up development environment on Solaris systems with all the "goodies" that you have ready-to-download.

Thanks for the cool site. Your work has made my life much simpler.

Thanks again for your cool site and all the work you put in preparing the packages.

This is a very useful site, congratulations.

Love the site. :) I've been using it to get some of those pesky bins who use imake instead of configure, and want Sun's development system.

I am a student from Taiwan. This web site is very useful for me. I got c compiler, and other freewares from this site.

Thanks for having a nice site.

Thank you very much for your effort in maintaining such a beautiful and useful site as www.sunfreeware.com.

Thanks a bunch for all the hard work you put in on this site. I can't tell you how many hours of work it has saved me and my clients. I (and a lot of other people) are sincerely in your debt!

Your site is great....thanks for all the other programs.

Let me say, that I think you're doing a great job for many of us, especially those of us that are kinda new to Solaris.

I recently got into your site and have downloaded some of your work. They are really good.

My customer has down-loaded the sendmail-8.9.1 for SPARC/Solaris-2.6 package from your wonderful site, and got it up and running with next to no further help from me (uncommenting a single line in sendmail.cf, viz. the Fw command so that sendmail.cw will be consulted, seems to be all the customization needed)!

Once again, I tip my head to you and the immensely useful site you are maintaining.

I have been using some of your packages (especially gcc) since Solaris 2.5.1 and then, with each Sun Solaris update, I have always found the new packages on your site.

It has saved me a lot of time, and I have been able to compile myself plenty of other (GNU or not) programs with your gcc package.

Your packages are really well done : congratulations !
Keep on doing such a fine job !

Thanks - great site - use it all the time! Keep up the great work!!!!

Oh! and about time, your site is great! It helped me alot since I haven't deal w/ solaris before. Congratulations!

THANKS a million!

Thank you for the great job you are doing.

Thanks for providing this great resource - I use a SPARC 10 at home, and sunfreeware.com is the first place I go when I need software. It's so much nicer to have a pkg that I can remove later than something I dump into /usr/local/.

Thank you very much sir! Thanks for your efforts for the Sun community!

Thanks for getting this web site going. It has been a GREAT help, especially with g++.

First off - well done on the work done so far to all involved. Excellent site. Keep up the good work!

I am impressed!

It works beautifully.

Thank you Very Very Much!

Thank you very much for your prompt response. Really appreciate it.

I just wanted to add my note of thanks for your work in putting together the Sunfreeware site. It's one of the most useful and time saving sites on the net. Your efforts are truly appreciated.

I want to thank you for all the packages you do : it save me a lots of time...:)

Hello God of solaris packages,

I use and enjoy your site. Thank you!

Comments on your sunfreeware site: It's great!

Being a long timer on Solaris x86 I can only say that your site provided me with the tools (specially gcc!!) that enabled me to continue using Solaris with a very big success in several jobs I had till now. Keep up the good work.

It means that I can now write scripts for some of my customers in Perl since I can now just load perl as a package. This is BRILLIANT.

First off, I would like to say that www.sunfreeware.com has been an indispensable resource for me. I have a Solaris 7 Intel box at home that I tinker with as a hobby, and I can't afford the $X000 that Sun charges for their software. Through your site, I have been able to make my home box a functional usable, machine, as opposed to simply a novelty. Many thanks go out to you and your helpers!

I have downloaded the apache web server and it runs great!

Keep up the good work!

Your site is now permanent in my bookmarks.

I just wanted to say thanks for all the free stuff. As a student, I need all the free stuff I can get. I think sometimes people begin to think that companies such as yours should do this any way, or if you want my business your going to give me free stuff. Then when they get it their not appreciative of it.

Great job on the PkgCreation Cookbook for Solaris, it worked like a champ the first time I ran it.

Thanks for the leg work...

First off: great work, I came across your site over 2 years ago and it still rocks.

This is a very good site, and thanks from us !

On how to increase swap space:

I wanted to say thanks for the how-to. I work with many different UNIX boxes and when I looked at the man pages for the Sun I wasn't quite understanding the whole thing. Your how-to as really cleared things up.

Thanks for you time.

Fantastic site!

Hey Steve,
Thanks for the tip, i hadn't gotten to that part of the FAQ. It worked. I really like this site, I think it's about the best one I have come across for precompiled solaris stuff, that is easy to find. and your documentation of common errors is really good. Thank you,

Thanks Steve, You help me a lot.

I would like to thank you for the wonderful service that you provide to the Solaris community.

I have found your packaged software really useful.

thanks for taking the time to help me, i am looking forward to running sendmail and a webserver off this old work horse and being a novice coming off of 98 it's a bit bumpy at times, but thanks to nice people like you, its possible.

hope someone does something nice for you tomorrow

Thanks muchly :-)

thank you very, very, very much. You've put together a great collection and you've saved me a tremendous amount of time.

I'm sure I'll be back frequently.

First let me thank you for providing these installation packages, this really helps in maintaining our small group of workstation with up-to-date software. Our main activity is more on the developing side than on the sysadmin.

I just wanted to thank you for the Sun freeware site. I use it to quickly get a server up and running with the utilities we need. One thing that really counts is when you're getting open source, you first need a compiler to compile the stuff. Your site allows us to get gcc/g++ and get a start on things without purchasing a compiler.

So, thank you very much!!!

I am working on packaging software and I found your article "Creating pkgadd Software Packages under Solaris" on the Internet extremely helpful.

i just wanted to take a moment and tell you what a great relief it is to know that your site with all that solaris freeware is out there.

i'm a unix-lover, and have always felt that its non-acceptance by the general public has everything to do with there being little or no useful software, readily available, and easily installable. our marketplace is filled with examples of how technical superiority does not mean marketshare - ease of use drives the market, period. bill gates may have the world's worst o/s, but he has the world's best bank account.

your site makes it easy for us unix-lovers to get the software we need to make our computers useful. your efforts to pre-package them are not unnoticed, and i'd like to personally thank you. i've downloaded and installed numerous solaris7 packages from your site. you are providing a wonderful service to the internet world. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much for maintaining this site. I was going insane until I found and figured out how to use it. Why? Because I recently acquired the free Solaris but wasn't able to do everything I wanted because it doesn't include (as you already know I'm sure) key utilities like gzip, make, or a compiler I did find gzip at other sites, but only the source code; and the compiled gnu compiler is also available but only in gzip format. Thanks to your site, I'm out of this situation.

I got your address from your excellent website, freeware for solaris. I have successfully downloaded and installed a few of the gnu tools. Thanks very much.

Thanks for the sunfreeware.com web site, it 's very useful.

Hi Steve, love the web site. You make my job very easy providing all of these packages, I just want to thank you for that.

I just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you for your work on the Freeware for Solaris site. I just installed Solaris7 x86 at home, being ever-so-tired of NT, and was delighted at how successful I have been with it (except for my sound card and the display quality). The freeware has installed perfectly and I am even fully operational with GCC and my development environment. Your site is a God-send. Thanks for the outstanding contribution to the 'net.

First of all I must congratulate you on some excellent pages - sunfreeware.com is a great resource for us with Solaris for Intel as most precompiled Solaris software seems to be compiled for Sparc platforms. Keep up the good work!

Thanks you for your effort with sunfreeware.com, it is making our lives so much simpler.

Thanks for maintaining such a useful site for sun users.

"Wow! what a site! how could I live before downloading tons of stuff there? It saved my miserable Unix systems engineer life !"

More seriously, your site is very well designed and I was really happy to find a large part of the GNU distribution. It saved me some days of compiling. Thanks for this 'must go there' site. Please keep up the good work.

Thank you for maintaining such a great site. It has saved me a lot of time and effort specially the pre complied binaries.

Excellent site! Many thanks.

My name is Mark and I'm a Network Administrator. I just wanted you to know I appreciate all the hard effort you have put into sunfreeware.com. I have not been using Unix that long but I love Solaris. It is by far my favorite OS. It's clean, stable, and puts MS to shame. I have been a MS person for many years but now realize the power that Unix has which is lacking in MS. But most of all, it's sites like yours that keep me going. If I didn't have the opportunity to download freeware and keep playing with Solaris everyday then I would lose interest.. I obviously can't afford to buy every app Sun makes (although they are great).. No matter what, Unix will always be the best OS for the Web, FTP, e-mail, and other various types of servers..

Always know there is someone out there in Internet land that really appreciates your time!!! Thank you!! I'm sure there are many others who feel the same...

Fabulous ...

First of all, I would like to congrat you guys on this great web site.

Thank you for creating packages that are easy-to-install and all the other work you've done. You are a great help!

I want to compliment you on a really cool and useful web site. Keep up the good work :D

Thank you for your solaris site, this helped me get sunboxes usable very quickly.

First thanks for you site, since i am not a programmer i can save a lot of time. before trying to compile something i can go to your site and look if what i need is already here.

yes, that was the solution,

thank you very much.

I just wanted to say thanks.

I come from a Linux/FreeBSD background and have recently bought an Ultra 5 with the idea of migrating more servers to SUNs. I must say I have hated Solaris 7 from the very second I got the Ultra out of the box... What's the point of an OS without gzip and/or a compiler??? I have been given your URL by a guy in SUN's UK support team and I think it is turning into a proper machine quite nicely... ;-)

Anyway, keep up the good work, you made my day.

thank you for the effort of bringing all those freeware to everyone running Solaris.

Thanks for all your work on this site, it really saves me so much time.

I want to say that that your site is the most important professional resource I can even think of. I work in an acadcemic environment under a limited budget. I find myself frequently asked to make mongrel workstations happy compiling software and running apps like latex and xfig.

I always used to swear by source no matter what. That's here too!

If nothing else, the fact that you have gcc binaries would make the site more than worthwhile! Keep it up...

Thank you, thank you,

you run a great site!!!

Thanks for maintaining www.sunfreeware.com.
I use it all the time to obtain sources for my project.

Great job on the site! You are a life saver!

You've got an excellent resource started at http://www.sunfreeware.com !

I have found your site EXCELLENT!

Thanks for making all the software I need readily available in one place.

Your site is out of this world...i probably visit it 99 times a day at least. thanks so much.

Great job on the Freeware site!! I hope Sun is taking care of you for your efforts!

Your site sunfreeware.com is excellent! I've been visiting it since a long time now. It's good to see that you have compiled software for Solaris 7 and for Intel platform too.

First off, many thanks for your efforts on sunfreeware.com - it's invaluable!

This site saves vast quantities of re-configuring/compile GNU software - you deserve a medal (or vast sums money).

Thank you very much for your work !

I have two Sun Sparc 5. I didn't get the Sun installation disk an its programs. So I am very happy to found here what I use on my linux pc and works too on the Sparc.

thanks for that - this site is pretty well just what I need!

Thanks much ... its working

I just wanted to say you've got a great site - Its helped a ton getting the compiler running on my system.

Thanks a lot.

The Solaris Freeware site is the best I have seen. Everywhere else has been confusing, with lots of files, but very little explanation. Thanks!!

BTW, thanks for doing this. It has helped me out and saved a lot of time on customer sites where it isn't always reasonable to download and compile for various reasons.

I just visited your website at sunfreeware.com :-) Cool site, lots of Solaris programs, and useful info's.

Awesome site !

I think you're doing a great service to the sun community by building these freeware packages and putting them at the sunfreeware.com site.

Congratulation for your great site Solaris Freeware. Its just great.

First of all, I think you are doing a great job!!

First, I'd like to say that this site is awesome. I use it all the time. I't's much easier and faster to get the precompiled stuff.

Thanks for providing your site for Solaris users.

First of all, congrats on the progress of the site....I didn't even realize where I was when I clicked on a hyperlink in a newsgroup article......very nice new look....and a lot more packages too. Nice job!

Thank you for maintaining such a site especially for newbies like me.

I saw your web and it was really cool - thanks for the info.

I was able without great problems to port my client-server database system to Solaris 7, using Your great port of gcc. In fact code for server compiled without errors ( I mean the version for RedHat Linux, it is stunning how similar these both systems are).

In response to your "how you can help" page on sunfreeware.com, I'd like to sincerely thank you for providing the pre-compiled packages on-line.

I'm just getting my feet wet with the Solaris X86 free version after lots of experience in the linux world. I was very surprised to find that Solaris doesn't come a compiler!

Anyway, a friend of mine pointed me to your site, and I was able to get up and running quickly, thanks to you. Thanks again for providing this incredibly useful resource!

Your Solaris 7 version of the GNU gcc 2.8.1 compiler was a lifesaver! Thanks!

I love your sunfreeware-site. I have been using SunOS/Solaris since 1990, both as a student and at work. I became a software consultant after new years and at my current commission they use Windoze, so I missed my dear Solaris :) So I then decided to install Solaris 7 on my PC at home, and that when I got in touch with your site.

I'd like to say thanks for all the work on the sunfreeware.com site. It's been an invaluable resource.

First of all I would like to congratulate you for the wonderful job that your doing.

I find your site quite cool.

Thanks for putting up this site and continuing to distribute free software for Solaris. Because of you and this site, I no longer spend countless frustrating hours trying to build software I downloaded from the net. Instead, I come here, download ready-to-go software, run pkgadd and in minutes I have an application or tool I can use immediately. You provide a very important service to me.

I am very impressed with your web site. You have obviously put a great deal of effort into it.

Love your site.

Love you!

This page has really helped me alot!

Let me first say that I think the sun freeware site is awesome. I love it.

try http://www.sunfreeware.com, it's a great site.

First off, great site.

This project has helped me learn to build a network used for prototyping embedded C++ modules for an embedded storage product we're working on.

Thank you for an outstanding site which has helped me tremendously. I particularly appreciate the great level of help you provide to those of us who are beginner to intermediate level system administrators. For example the help you provided regarding the size problems with the /usr, /opt, /var, /tmp directories has helped me tremendously. I now custom configure these partitions to be larger when I build a machine but for the systems I inherited with these size constraints your help saved me a lot of time. Thanks again for a really outstanding site.

Thanks for a great site. It really has helped me tremendously!

Thanx for your help!

I'll like to congratulate you on your brilliant work with the sunfreeware website. Thank you very much for the generous amounts of time and effort you have put into this site!!

Thanks for the info. It's just what I was looking for.

I just want to thank You for this site (sunfreeware.com) ... This Site is a big help for me to administrate my SUN Computers, and keep the cost small :-)

So thats all thank you very much and keep on going :-)

Thanks for responding so quickly. It works!

Thank You very much for your quick replies. I will try out.

Once again thank you for your time.

I would to thank you for your work to date. Most excellent!

get gcc from
http://www.sunfreeware.com/
the site rocks.

I like to take time out and thank people when I can, so here goes:

The Sun Freeware site is absolutely a lifesaver. I've used several of the precompiled packages you put together (esp. gcc 2.8.1 ... compiling gcc is usually pretty ugly), and they all work flawlessly. I just got done compiling several CPAN perl modules using your 2.8.1 gcc implementation (and installing into your perl 5.005_02 installation!) with no problems.

Thanks for assembling this site and the work you've put into it to make it easy to find what you want. Your site layout is EXCELLENT ... don't change it one bit!

Thanks for the quick reply!

Cool -- thanks Steve

Thanks for the help steve. Appreciated. :)

a big, big *thank you* in the very first place.

worked perfectly. thanks for the help.

Kudos on an excellent site!

I've just found your Freeware-pages for Solaris... nice thing! :-)

( big fan of the site )

Thanks for the help....

I got it. It's so simple and I would like to thank you very much for your effort! Yeh!

Thanks a lot!

Your recipe works like a charm (well, at least it did for getting bash up and running, i'll try it on other packages also). [I understand your caution about gcc, but i believe we can set a few environment variables to take care of matters.]

This is a real help for us, because our sysadmins are very busy, and if we can evaluate a package before getting them to install it, it saves a lot of false steps.

Thanks again.

Great site!

Thanks a lot !

Thanks for the great site! You saved me a LOT of headaches by making the latest gcc (and libstdc++) available for Solaris 7!

Just wanted to tell you how useful your site has been to me. I'm not (wasn't) much of a unix guru, more networking and Internet security side of the world. I needed to installed Gated on my sun but had none of the tools/packages preinstalled. Your site saved me hours/possibly days of work. (Ultimately I downloaded perl, sendmail,gcc,make,db,bison,traceoute)

Anyways, I just wanted to compliment you on your site it's probably the most useful sites I've seen.

Thanks for a great page.

Steve, after installing Solaris 7 Intel I realized I needed a compiler. Stayed up all night trying to compile GCC under Linux for Solaris. Fell flat on my face. By luck I found the SUN Freeware site. Can't tell you how happy I was. If others know of this & Solaris developers offer, Solaris Intel would wipe out Linux. Great job, thanks for the help. This site should be in the Solaris & Media package. Thanks,

First, thanks for the excellent site that you host for Sun Freeware. I consider it an invaluable tool (really).

First, let me say how helpful the pre-packaged Solaris freeware site has been to me. I have downloaded a significant portion of the packages available on your site and have integrated them into a customized autoinstall environment that would probably not be nearly so elegant without this software already existing in a Solaris package format. I started at a new company with very few Solaris machines and was able to create a robust infrastructure containing a rich set of software within a month or two due in large part so your work. Thank you.

Thanks for all of your efforts to maintain this site.

The site is great! Thanks for the help. It saved me a bunch of time.

First of all I wanna thank you for a really good and useful site!

Thanks for maintaining this useful site.

I've downloaded some of your packages at sunfreeware and they have been very helpful.

Let me thank you for all the work you have done. I appreciate it greatly.

At first, I thought I would only use it to overcome the missing cc and crt*.o from Solaris 2.x, but you make it so easy to use and keep fairly current, so it has become my first choice when I need something. I work on many different machines, mostly run by people that don't care about the tools you provide, and it is nice to be able to get productive in minutes instead of taking a day to compile and set up. Again, thanks.

I found your site www.sunfreeware.com to be a major administration resource for us. The packaging is a breeze to install and keep many machines current.

Thanks for putting up a terrific resource for all us overworked admins around the globe!

We also like the 2.5 availability. We're getting to 7 RSN.

Thank you very much for your kind effort.

Great Web site !!! I found that it is very convenient because the software has been precompiled and very well arranged and documented.

I appreciate your taking time to look and respond. It ended up well.

You site is the BEST!!. You'd think they'd have done this for every OS.

Thank you for providing all these packages!

YOUR SITE IS VERY HELPFUL! T H A N K S !!! :-)

The software on the archive is going to make my life here a fair bit easier. Many thanks for the service!

Thanks for the reply, your site has been a great help for files!

First off, I would like to state that you are doing a great thing here. You know how much time it saves everyone to have packages of precompiled binaries? Wow, very sweet indeed. Kudo's to you.

I appreciate everything you are doing,

Let me first say, totally awesome site. I'm a newbie to the Sun platform and the info and precompiled binaries you have saved me a big headache. Thanx again for having such a helpful site. Keep up the good work!

Great site. Thanks for all your good work.

Steve - thanks for your help.

thank you!

I've downloaded some programs from your site (gcc, bash, flex and bison for Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 7) and I've seen that a way to help you is sending you "highly complimentary e-mail". Well, here it is! I'm deeply impressed with the quality of the packages you offer: they install quickly and work perfectly. A great work.

You've heard it before but what a handy resource! Thanks!

I think your site is great.

Thanks for this terrific site. It makes my life run smoother.

We now have emacs. Thanks for the quick and accurate response.

I very much appreciate your work!

Was one of the "several" sunfreeware.com?

In my experience that one's far and away the best.

Can i call you UNIX GOD? Thanks.

Thank You, Thank You, and Thank You!!

I just wanted to thank you for the hard work you have put into the SunFreeware site.

A year and a half ago, I landed a job running a handful of Sun workstations and servers, with absolutely no prior Sun experience. I had administered UNIX systems for an ISP, but these were SCO, FreeBSD, and Linux systems. I had come to rely heavily on having a compiler handy to compile "just one more add-on" as well as having a large library of tools like Perl, TCL/Tk and such.

As I started a new Sun job, I was suddenly confronted with whole new world, but I soon was led to your site by the many references in the rest of the Sun community. A year and a half later, I stopped by "to grab workman real quick" for a new box, and thought I would let you know how indispensable your site and your work has become to me personally.

Thanks a lot! Great site!

Just wanted to say that your site has been unvaluable for me. I work mostly in Linux and having this great source of GNU software saved my life when working on Solaris.

First of all THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

THIS IS A GREAT SITE !!!

FANTASTIC! It works!

a high compliment to you. your site has helped me tremendously by saving me time and endless hours of frustration at trying to get certain packages to compile.

First of all i wanna thank you for a really good and useful site!

First off, I love www.sunfreeware.com :) I've been using it since it was just for Solaris 2.5.1.

This is one of those complimentary email you discussed. I have used your site a few times and always found what I needed.

thank you very much for having made TclTk8.1 available so quickly.

This is a -very- useful site. I really needed a compiled gcc. The link was great, but w/o the faq, i would not have gotten it installed. thank you very much.

Great job with the sunfreeware site. I just installed solaris 7 the other day and am enjoying learning. Glad I stumbled across your site.

Great collection you have here !

I was able to acquire the files this morning. Thank you for your time and patience.

Thank *you*. And keep up the great work! Your site is terrific!

*Good Job!*

Thanks. That is what I was looking for.

This is a great service that you are running. It has saved us hundreds of hours. Thanks a million.

Thank You : )

Subject: Awesome Site

I love your Sunfreeware.com site - and in fact it saved my company about $7,000. We were going to pay a third party to compile and install a good amount of software that was already compiled on your site. Thank you so much, this is definitely an invaluable resource.

Thanks indeed, I got what I wanted.

I found the instructions on creating the Pkgadd file very useful and easy to follow. Because of your instructions, I was saved the struggle and the hair pulling. :)

Thanks a lot once again !!!

Subject: THANK YOU....THANK YOU....THANK YOU!!!!!! >p> Steve:

A SUPERB SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had to say thank you for the incredibly useful site. I got the site URL from the Solaris FAQ. Glad I stopped by. You've done a great service to the Solaris world. I found several packages I needed.....plus the info to install them. Keep up the excellent work....PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

Signed,

A Happy Solaris 7-X86 Camper,

Thanks for the great site.

I hope Sun are supporting you, because www.sunfreeware.com is a flagship site.

I just visit your incredible homepage. There are plenty of very useful resources on it. Be sure I will come again and again.

Thanks for the web site - just what I wanted.

Thanks - Great site !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for a very useful website you have.

accrording to your little guide "Creating pkgadd Software Packages under Solaris" at http://www.sunfreeware.com/ I managed to build a package of my own little GPL'd program very easily! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge...

Its good to see in the list of freeware available old standby's such as less, top and gzip. We have been using them for a number of years now, installed on our system with the pkgadd method.

I just wanted to let you know what a life/time saver your site is!

Thanks for the 20.2 emacs which installs in /opt/ Great for Sun employee's who do not "own" /usr/local.

It works. Thanks a lot ! Thank you for your reply. I now have the latest version of top installed and working without failure. My next move will be to look into 'lxrun'.

Whoever came up with the idea of Sun freeware should be given a medal and those that are making it work more so.

I just wanted to drop you a line and say Thanks. Your site has helped me through the years get software I need. On top of this, your little doc showed me how to make those darn packages. Now, I compile, test, and package everything. I defiantly got some brownie points with my boss. Thanks.

I like the site and have used it for a couple of years.

I'm a grateful user of the Freeware for Solaris site and have downloaded and used a number of your precompiled binaries.

Thanks for running a great site.

I want to thank you for doing this work. Its great!

Too often, no one says anything.

Thanks for all your hard work in maintaining the Solaris Binary Site. With Sun's lobotomized compilerless software, they've put a big hurt on us newbies. Thanks for putting all this good stuff out there.

You're doing a great job. thanks heaps! keep it up.

Thank you Steve!

let me say I appreciate the service you provide.

Thanks for the great site.

Thanks for the reply. I will be a great help.

I really enjoyed your sunfreeware page.

Great to see sunfreeware is as strong as ever.

I would like to thank you for the site. I'm getting some packages from your site, while I'm writing this mail.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to overcome the problem.

Hello Steve, Been to the -wonderful- sunfreeware.com site.

Great work. I use sunfreeware.com all the time.

Just installed a free copy of Solaris and then found out that there were no C-compiler. I thought I was in hell. Then I found your site and was back in heaven again! :-)

Just a note to say a big "THANKS" for your many contributions to sunfreeware.com and SunSITE.

Thank you very much.

Great work with this site, keep it up!!

thank you very much for your quick response.
You helped us a lot in finding a solution for our problem. No idea why we didn�t found these Internet pages although we looked around the whole net.

Just wanted to add my thanks to the tons of others you have received. I find sunfreeware.com is my most useful resource on the net. Thanks again for making so many packages available so easily.

Thanks for your patience.

Thank you very much !!

Yes, you can check out: http://www.sunfreeware.com Great source of pre-compiled stuff for a sun box.

The web site sunfreeware.com has been instrumental in my development efforts.

howdy! great job on sunfreeware.com -- thanks for providing lots of great packages. i teach solaris administration classes for sun and recommend your site to lots of students.

Great Site.
The "Freeware for Solaris" is the site I was looking for a long time. Especially the compiled GNU binaries are very useful for the first start.

Definitely the sunfreeware site has been VERY helpful .. i don't tedius amounts of time compiling stuff .. Thanks very very much!!!!!!!!

Thanks for precompiled Solaris stuff - helps a lot.

Oh Great And Mighty WebMaster :P
Your website is a great help !

SUCCESS!!!
Your instructions worked. Thanks for all your help Steve.

Thanks ever so much.

I am new to the sunfreeware.com website and I love it. The utilities offered are outstanding.

Thank you for your time and the good work with this site.

From China:
Thank you!
Thank you very much for give me a so good web!

That was it! SSH successfully installed. Thanks again!

Many thanks.

Thanks for your efforts - your site definately makes my work/life easier

Thanks for providing all the pre-built freeware for Solaris 7. It's a huge benefit for us poor student types that can't afford SUNWspro compilers. Without your site we'd be forced to jump through innumerable hoops just to get a working compiler, but thanks to you I can just browse through your archive and pull off a prepackaged gcc, along with a host of other stuff I need. Keep up the good work.

Hello, Sir! I really appreciate for what you have done there on the www.sunfreeware.com . It really really helps on Solaris 7, especially the gcc binary. Man, without that I don't know what else can I do on Solaris. Thanks for everything.

Thanx. It must be helpful to me.
Thanx a lot.
God bless you.

First of all, thanks for a wonderful resource and excellent documentation. You are doing a service to all Solaris users, and especially those like me who are relatively new to Solaris and to system administration.

I have installed a good number of the programs already compiled and put in package format on the SunFreeware site. They are easy to install and can also be installed quickly as they do not have to be compiled.

thank you very much for your work! It saved me a lot of time, especially for the gcc package.

Really appreciate the response. Thank you.

I have been a big fan of yours for sometime. :)

I've "always" thought solaris would become the top-notch OS that it has -- and always will be.

Great job on your sunfreeware.com, the site is growing rapidly.

I've been meaning to mail you for ages !! As everyone else says The site is EXCELLENT one of the few Solaris sites that you NEED !! I'm just doing a complete re-install so I'm here to pick up all the essentials (gcc etc etc) so I thought I'd say thank while I'm here.

Thank you for your reply.

May your fridge be always full of beer ;-)

Excellent job. Thank you

Keep up the good work pal we'd be lost without you

Let me thank you for spending your time on compiling and saving the developers their money.

Thanks for all the freestuff, much appreciated ;-)

www.sunfreeware.com has been a great resource in setting up Solaris workstations and servers here.

Thanks very much, this was very helpful.

thanx so much; very helpful.

Thanks, that did the trick.

Keep up this invaluable work - I have used your pkg's many times now.

Thanks, a million again you wonderful person !

I'm search for "imtools" software for Sparc Solaris2.5.1 . I will very happy to see it in your beautiful site.

Thank you very much. I had download some source code and decompressed them. It is really a software treasure-house, and you are the manager of it.

Thank you for this site, it is wonderful.

First I would like to thank you for what you have put together on sunfreeware, I have found it useful.

First, I'd like to thank you for the excellent job that you've done on your site. You really provide a great service. I read your instructions for how to make packages and have applied your technique with great success.

Congrats on creating such a useful site!

excellent resource ever since my company recently set up a Solaris Sun U5 box running under Solaris 2.6.

Very nice site! well organized and useful.

Thanks for your wonderful site.

Thanks for all the hard work you put into your site.

thank you very much for your great website! We are running quite a lot of freeware now thanks to your efforts.

Thanks for a great site!!!

Thanks for all the great work on the sunfreesoftware site.

That is exactly what I was looking for, I just didn't see them at first. Thanks! I appreciate your time.

I find your site EXTREMELY valuable day to day.

Thanks,

You're a champ. I'll give it a try.

Thanks once again, Steve.
Everything has turned out just fine.

Thanks Steve!
You are a great kid !

This is a phenomenally well laid out and useful site. I am coming over from the Linux camp, and while Solaris is being a pain in the *** at times, this site has been a very, very nice place to discover. Probably the best site I've run across in many years. Keep up the good work!!

Thank you for an extremely helpful site.

great work with sunfreeware.com !!!

Thank you for this good job.

Thank you very much for your support.

What a really wonderful site!!
I am really really glad that I found it!
After trying to install tcsh forever,
your site made it barely a breeze.

Now I have no excuse to install other packages.

Many Thanks for this site,

Very nice site guy. I use it alot.

This WEB site (sunfreeware.com) is lovely.

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK - YOU MY LIFE A LOT EASIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I poked around on your site and I love it. A friend on mine told me about this archive today so now I am going to use this as a reference point. Keep up the great work.

Thank you for the information. It is very useful to me.

Thanks. It worked like a charm.

Wonderful website! you save me alot of time to look for other places.

compliments,

you help and helped a lot

Just wanted to express my appreciation for your web site of Solaris freeware.

For sysadmins like me that have no time nor interest in compiling third party programs (which usually involves debugging other people's code) your site is a true blessing.

I appreciate the work you guys are doing providing service.

great work, your efforts come in handy.

I am one of those inexperienced guys, who are compelled to help administering a system with about 10 Sun Workstations. Numerous are the times I tried to use source code of various programs to make it run and ended up only frustrated. Of course if one spend a day or two, it's possible almost anything running. However the issue is to do it within minutes, or hours at most so that you have some time for your research work also. www.sunfreeware.com is the first site I found (there may be others, I don't know) with a comprehensive list of pre compiled programs for Sun Solaris and the like. This is the way the things should be! It's fun to try compiling a program spending a week occasionally. But having bulk of the needed software in package format is unbelievably nice! So THANKS!!

Keep up the good work...

Thank you for an excellent site.
Keep it up.

Great site, can't live without it :)

Thanks for running one of the best Sun software collections!

I would like to complement you on the "sunfreeware" page, it has provided me with the tools that I required to begin to assemble my own arsenal of GNU applications.

Subject: Highly complimentary email indicating how this project has helped me

and thanks. I've been instructed to put bind on a Sun Sparc4 we had hanging around. After going through the drill of installing Solaris 7, I found to my dismay that a C compiler is not included (I'm new to Sun, I learned on Linux). Not to mention no gzip, wget, perl or bash. Thank god I found your site. Otherwise I'd be weeks late and dollars short.

Thanks again.

Thanks very much for the effort on the sunfreeware .com site, I use your packages quite a bit as I move from client to client and they all ask for a subset of the packages to be installed.

Thanks for the wonderful site. I have used the program collection many different times in my consulting work.

Thank you for all your efforts, I know time is not free so I am really very grateful to you.

I've downloaded a number of your software and they have not only helped me tremendously, but also have opened new avenues for me to discover and research.

Thanks again for the great site. It is extremely useful.

thanks to your work you definitely reduced the struggle to get our new sun-workstation up-to-date.

Very helpful, amazing.

this is really the best site for solaris users ! Loaded a lot of stuff the last years.

Thanks for all your work!

First off, thanks for providing Sun Freeware. I usually compile applications myself, but your site is real handy when one needs something in a jiffy...

Thank you very much.

I have just made some vital use of your "sunfreeware" site. Thanx, it's a Sysadmin's lifesaver! :)

It's sites like this and attitudes like yours that helps me to justify sticking to all this "Old Technology" Unix stuff :-)

I find you site very useful. It has made my life easier on many occasions.

You've heard this before, but this is THE BEST solaris software site on the Internet. Thanks for everything!

Thanks for the quick response, Steve, and for your efforts.

Congratulations for this web site which is really useful and informative.

Thank you for such a terrific site. I appreciate all the work that has went into the freeware site.

Thanks for the site. It's great for getting things done *now* (especially when you're new to Solaris :) )

Just a quick note to let you know what a great resource your Sunfreeware.com site is! I needed a couple utilities for a new server (tcsh and gzip), searched the web and was referred to sunfreeware. The rest is history. Thanks to your excellent instructions, I was up and running in < 10 minutes.

Thanks again and keep up the great work!

I also would like to thank you, the site www.sunfreeware.com has become almost essential for me to do my job effectively and I am not sure what I would do without it.

Sunfreeware is a great site, incredibly useful!! Thanks very much.

Thanks for making so much useful software available.

first of all the sunfreeware-service is absolutely great. Very up-to-date freeware installing in /usr/local in package-format: Dreams come true :) Best of all: I haven't had any problems with your software yet.

And I personally want to thank you for saving Solaris system administrators in the world untold amounts of time and energy, by providing all this software in one convenient location.

Putting these software images up is a great service.

I really like the way you have organized and commented the tools/programs/etc. Especially useful are the dependencies between packages! Great job.

Thanks for your quick attention!! I owe you.

Thank you very much for the time and effort you put into this project. It has been a GREAT resource.

hope you can fix it...I love/need your site! :]

This site has been a godsend for my "not so UNIX literate" group. The difference between installing a package and messing about with make and configure is beautiful. Thanks so much for all your work.

That did the trick...you da man!!!

I wanted to take this opportunity to express to you how thankful I am for the information that you have provided.

The link http://sunfreeware.com/pkgadd.html is extremely valuable because I need to be able to wend my way through this method and understand it completely.

thanks for your help......

Dear sir!

Thanks for your help

I am the sysadmin at site with SUN SPARC 1000.
I would like to thank you for your site.

I administer a network of old sunos, solaris, and linux machines. Over the years I have saved days of time by installing precompiled binaries for my solaris machines from your site. Thank you.

Thanks much, and keep up the great work!

GREAT site. This is a fabulous resource and is on my "really important bookmarks" list. If I had a few hundred thousand bucks to spare, I'd pay you to maintain and expand this site, that's how important a resource this is!

Thanks for providing such an excellent resource for sparc binaries. It certainly makes life a lot easier installing from binaries and your site is by far the best place to look for such binary files.

Thanks for the link to the Sun free software. And there I was thinking that Sun was being nasty and forcing people to buy a compiler just to compile GNU! All the time it was already compiled and ready to download from Sun.... I'll have to get a gzip too since that's not included in Solaris 7 either!

BTW, the site is awesome. It's been a lifesaver for things like lsof. One of the most useful things I've come across on the net.

First, I'd like to thank you for the providing a variety of packages under your site sunfreeware.com. I've installed a number of packages from your site on two recently purchased Ultra-60s.

Thanks for the help!

Thank you very much,

Thanks for providing such a valuable service for everyone on Sunfreeware.com. I am sure many people benefit and it is much appreciated.

It worked.

Thanks a bunch. I fixed my Netscape problem too.

Keep up your great work !!

Believe it or not, some of us actually are grateful and appreciate your work, please keep up the same.

Thanks for putting up the SunFreeware.com! It's a huge resource. You've saved me a lot of time with this site and I'm grateful.

P.S. I love your site.

I would like to express my best regards for your cooperation about Fortran compiler I've requested and fast reply to my e-mail.

Thanx for the site, sunfreeware.com. Really helpful!

Thank you for providing this site. It has helped me get a more "functional" server up in no time. It's truly amazing what vendors will ship and consider functional. No compiler, no perl, no gzip. Every single time I install a commercial OS, I have to go and get gcc, perl and gzip.

Thank you very much - I appreciate your help.

You are absolutely right!!!! Now it works perfectly. Many thanks for your help.

Thanks for providing this useful site!

Http://www.sunfreeware.com holds the treasures which you seek.

Thanks!!!!!

You've got one of the best sites on the web....in my humble opinion. Keep up the good work!

I just wanted to thank you for your faq on http://www.sunfreeware.com/faq.html, although I didn't want to install any package from sunfreeware. I had problems installing mysql and found the faq throu a searchengine with the searchstring "gcc: installation problem, cannot exec". Esp. A5 (all the needed Packages) finally solved my problem. Thanks again,

Your packaging steps guided me well to create my very first package Thanks Steve.. :-)

Thank you for the valuable time and effort you spend on sunfreeware.

Your site is very useful. All of us in Kuwait University Computer Center appreciate it very much.

Your web site is very interesting, BRAVO !!!!

Thanks for your fast response and dedication to the Freeware project.

Firstly, thanks very much for your time and effort in creating this site. It has helped me configure servers very fast.

I just thought I would drop you a note and tell you how useful your site is. Your site has made my job, and therefore my life, so much easier! You deserve much more praise than a single person can give but suffice it to say this: You rock all the way to 11! Keep up the good work.

Thanks a lot for running this site. It has helped me a lot. I am an experienced Unix admin and hat to setup a SPARC/Solaris2.6 box. I can compile most packages by myself, but I really needed gzip and gcc that I found oun your site.

Thanks a lot.

As an ex-Sun admin now trying to get his SPARCstation 2 as the NAT/firewall machine for his home DSL cloud, your site has made it easy to bring the old clunker up to snuff.

If you're ever in San Francisco, the first latte is on me!

The installation of gcc for my new sun solaris 2.6 works very well. All my software is compiled and works now on sun. Its great.

Thank You!

And thanks for the whole Sunfreeware site.

Site is great!.

Sunfreeware rox. A great service and very well put together.

Many Kudos!

Sunfreeware.com provides a great service for those of us who can't afford and are unfamiliar with Solaris. Sun's distribution of Solaris to mere mortals is an awesome opportunity.

Thank you very much!

http://www.sunfreeware.com is a great site! :-)

Many Thanks for your help

It works!!!!
Thanks a lot

got it. :-)
THANKS for your speedy response!

Thank You, Thank You, Thanks! , it worked. Now if I can add DBI and DBD::Oracle I'll have it made.

many many, many thanks

Thanks for your advice on installing the gcc package. I now have it installed correctly!

Thanks for your help and what a wonderful site!

I tried it and it works.
thanks a lot for the inputs.

As a security guy I'm pretty damn reluctant not only to run binaries that I didn't create myself, but also in recommending that anyone else do the same.

Nonetheless, I wanted to thank you (since you said on your site that that was how people could help!) for all the work and professionalism that goes into the solaris site. Having source code alongside binaries, as well as md5's of it all is really a useful tool.

While I wouldn't generally use them on my ancient sunos system that I call my main home, I do use some of them on my solaris boxes, and for that I again thank you.

T'care and keep up the great work!

works like a charm. thanks.

Truly outstanding work, thx.

Thank you very much for all the work you put into your sunfreeware.com site. It is an extremely useful site, enabling even experienced programmers and web users to bootstrap their systems. For example, having the precompiled gcc package ready to go opens up the whole world of OpenSource software.

I live in Peru. I want to congratulate all of you for the nice job you are doing in maintaining this site - is the best we can find in the Web. I am a Solaris user, (Ultra 5 Solaris 7) and the SW I can find in your site is the most useful one can get. Also this increase the acceptance of Solaris in Peru in a manner you can not realize. I hope you continue FOREVER.

I really appreciate your site.

Hi, I enjoy your site, it really makes things easy from when I need to setup a box quickly.

Great. Thanks a lot!!!

Your site is the best! Its made my life as an unix administrator so much easier in so many ways. Keep up the Great Work.

I've pulled down some of your software such as perl5 and your SUNSITE is my favorite. You have so much. I love it!!

Hi, I enjoy your site, it really makes things easy from when I need to setup a box quickly.

I've pulled down some of your software such as perl5 and your SUNSITE is my favorite. You have so much. I love it!!

Thanks heaps for your site, its helped me come to grips with commercial unix :). Keep up the great work.

I took your advice and it worked! I have also successfully installed the Apache 1.3.6 web server, on my workstation. I hope to continue benefiting from your technical wisdom in the future. Thanks for your kind co-operation so far.

I enjoy your site, keep up the good work.

The sunfreeware site is very useful!

First, let me add to the list of people who want to say thanks! Your site has been a tremendous help, and after having tried to build different programs, I can appreciate what effort you put into the site itself, as well as into building the different apps. Much thanks!

Hey Steve, I just wanted to tell you that you have an excellent site!! Keep up the good work. Again, thanks for a great site!!

If you haven't heard it enough, I want to add my two cents and say that this is the best GNU site. I use it all the time. I have a bunch of engineers that are always asking for more.

Thank you :-)

It's now working perfectly, many thanks,

Great site. I use it a lot to get the binaries rather than having to compile.

...thank you. And keep up the great work! I just found your site and I LOVE it!

Thanx for your help & fast response

I would like to thank you for providing www.sunfreeware.com. It continues to be a time(life?)saver over and over again.

Really like the site. An awesome collection of software...
Anyway, please keep up the good work!

I think your site for Solaris freeware is terrific.

I want to thank you for providing so many useful binaries. I have downloaded and installed quite a few of them.

Great site! Love it.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Thank you very much for your help and best wishes from Germany.

Thank you for your quick reply, I use your site regularly and it is top notch!

Thanks for your site. It's been great.

Thanks again for your site. Makes getting this stuff set up a lot easier.

Have I told you how much time www.sunfreeware.com has saved me? Have I told you lately that it is a godsend and helped me to single handedly quell the outrageous demands of 40 rabid developers at once? (if more ass kissing is required let me know :)

Seriously though, www.sunfreeware.com has been a real asset to me in supporting developers at several different companies.

Great site!

Your Sun freeware site is great. It has been very useful to me as a rookie to the world of Solaris and GNU software.

I have really liked your site since I have started working as a admin at my small company. The source for the programs and libs have really made my life easier (especially the packages).

Great site, thanks for all the work.

Your good deed will bring you good karma.

Thanks for all your help last week. We installed the programs on a 2.6 sun computer and they worked fine.

I was introduced to the site in the last week, and it has been a big help for me. The only two items I could have

Thanks again for providing such a useful site.

Thanks, and you you've done a great job of maintaining this site. It makes Solaris a much more workable environment for those coming from Linux, and others.

Great project - saves me loads of time!

Thanks for all your fine and excellent tips and such.

brilliant keep up the good work

Thanks for your help.

Love the sunfreeware site use it all the time.

Big Thank You
I just had to pass on my gratitude to you for your work with www.sunfreeware.com. I access the site almost daily...first for downloads...second for the extensive links you have. Thanks for the great work.

First of all, I just want to say that sunfreeware.com is the greatest.. Its usually the first place I look for Solaris packages. So Thanks a ton!

I love your Sunfreeware site. It is a tremendous help to me. Thank you for all your efforts maintaining the site.

Thanks for your wonderful website.

Just thought I'd write an email thanking you for your work on Sunfreeware.com. It was really helpful to be able to download packages from one site instead of bouncing all over the web. So far, I've obtained tk/tcl and perl 5 for Sol7 Intel. I will definitely forward you any packages I find along my travels. Once again, thanks and keep up the great work.

Great work you're doing there. Excellent!

Thanks for providing such valuable resources on your site.

First of all, I love your web site and use it often! :)

By the way, the Freeware for Solaris Website is excellent. I found the packages installed really well when I used it before, with no problems. Keep up the good work.

Your site is great resource and a boon to us all.

Sunfreeware website is a gem by the way.

I read your article on creating packages. It is really good, I tried it myself. It is working fine.

Thanks for posting such a good article on net.

I just want to let you know your software is a butt saver here for me at work.

Thanks for your time. You provide a great service to the user community. I am so grateful for your site. I just bought a new SUN Ultra running Solaris 7, and finding your site was incredibly useful.

Hot site. I like the precompiled packages! They make life a little easier for me as a Solaris administrator. Dig the site. Rocks. Have fun!

Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to answer my questions.

Thanks for the great job you all have been doing with the Sun Freeware site.

THANKS OH GREAT ONE!

Love your site. Been using it since I got into Solaris a couple years ago. Unfortunately, I'm an SA, and not very good with programming.

Thanks!!!
:-)

Thank you very much . You helped me to do great work . Good Luck.

first I want to thank you for your great software archive. Very useful!! Keep up the good work!

Appreciate you maintaining such a site.

Here's the "high complementary email" ;) Great work, well done, your site makes life alot easier. I also find the layout attractive.

Thanks for your contribution to the net.

As a solaris for intel user I just wanted you to know how much I appreciate the work you have put into making the site. Great effort and great results!!

Thanx again.

Thanks for your great site!

Your website really rocks. It's the best source for Solaris binaries out there. Amazing work you've done!

Keep up the great work and the great site - It certainly is my first port of call when a user request comes in!

Thanks for setting up the www.sunfreeware.com site!

I know you have received similar compliments, but I just can't help sending mine. Your site is the most useful and the best organized place for free Solaris software tools. Also, your notes on installation packaging is neat.

First off let me say that I am very impressed with the site, excellent job.

BTW, great site.

really cool site :)

I'd like to thank you for making this service available.

First off, thanks for the great service. Finding your site was a great relief - I was worried that I'd be stuck building all my favorite free tools from scratch, but your site put my mind at ease :)

Just a thanks for all the great work you have done over the years with the site ......
It has been an invaluable tool to us.

I love sunfreeware.com. My life is so much easier because of it!

Tks for your time. Hope you make some money and have some fun with your sunfreeware.com site because it's a great site for folks like me that work more with linux than solaris.

love the site.

First, may I say that your efforts to distribute GNU software for Solaris systems is fantastic, and I'd be lost without it.

Your continued efforts in the sunfreeware.com project, facilitates my everyday integration and administrative live, giving me more time to be with my daughter.

I wish you your kind of success and happiness(have it your way). You truly are a deserving heart.

Thank you Steve!

First of all, your site is great!

Really good job on the site and the packages, BTW.

sunfreeware.com.. most usefull site on the net.thanks!

Hi, I found Sunfreeware.com and must say that this is some excellent stuff that you're doing.

Thank you for a great web site.

Keep up the good work with sunfreeware.com... it's saved my life many a time...

Thanks for the great site!

thanks for all the info and software on your site. i like it a lot and made it easy for me to setup my sun machines here (sun7 and sun8 x86). keep on the good work.

I just wanted to take a moment to say THANKS for all the hard work that obviously went into this site. I'm a hobbyist who just acquired a SparcStation and Solaris 7 and your site is a godsend.

Great site for Solaris freeware!

I wanted to thank you for your help on the installation issue. It worked great.

Now off to the races to the next issue.........

Really enjoy the site!

First I would like to thank you for all the work you have done to make much valuable software and tools more easily available to Sun users. Every time I install gcc on a workstation, I silently extend my thanks to you.

1. Thank you for the work you do, not only do I use programs you have packaged you have responded to help requests that I posted in Usenet and the world needs more people like you.

grazie mille

Thank you for the pointer. Thank you, too, for your SunFreeWare site efforts.

Congratulations for your work done about sunfreeware.

You freakin' rule the most! Sunfreeware is an incredible collection of software and, more importantly, information which saved me a LOT of time and wasted effort. Keep up the great work!

Unix rules and M$ drools (something like that ;-) ).

Thanks so much for all the great info on your pkgadd web page!

Wow, thanks a million for your site. I just installed Solaris 2.7, and there was NO software I knew.

I am a FreeBSD/Linux guy, and the fact there was no c compiler killed me. I had used Solaris at school, but most of the stuff was pre-installed.

Your site is saving me a lot of headache :)

Thanks again!

Thanks for doing sunfreeware.com. It's been a real time-saver on my cluster of 14 Sun workstations (SPARCstation 5 to Ultra 60) for the past two years..

It works, Thanks a million times mate, Thanks alot.

Thank you Steve, you are a truly SantaClaus :-)

Love your page. It's been a real life saver!

First let me thank you for your commitment to the unix community and your great site.

thanks for the impressive work you're doing on sunfreeware.com, keep it going!

Great Site!

You got a great site here. I usually goes to this site to download applications for Solaris. Thanks a lot for the great site!!!

First off, I REALLY appreciate your site. I've gotten Solaris 7 (intel/sparc) stuff from you for a couple weeks now, and you've made the difference!

You're providing an important service for the Solaris community, and your efforts are appreciated.

Thanks very much for your collection. You pretty much saved the day, this week end.

Great to see Nedit available on SunFreeware - Thanks!

You asked for positive feedback, so here's some. I used your gcc binaries to compile and install squid source on a middle-aged Sparc Voyager. I donated the machine today to my daughters' school, where it is now happily caching web pages -- and saving grade schoolers and their teachers countless time browsing the web for school research. Since it's a typical Catholic school running on a prayer (so to speak), you helped provide an affordable solution that only cost my time and some old (but still good) hardware.

The compiler ran like a champ and mu cacher set up with no problems. I'd forgotten how much I liked Solaris when I SA'd on Ultras running 2.4. These days it's mostly Linux.

If Sun's goals (and yours) include interesting Linux users in Solaris again, it worked for me.

Thanks for all of your work on the Sunfreeware site. It's a very handy resource that my group was just discussing over lunch today.

Thanks for http://www.sunfreeware.com/ Great stuff!

You host a great site; thanks!

Thank you for the wonderful job with precompiling software for solaris 8.

Thanks :)

Thank you very much for maintaining freesoftware page for sparc !

Wonderful web site! Keep up the great work!

I recently had the job of setting up a few new Solaris machines, something that I've had very little experience with as most of my experience was on SG Irix and Linux (and old versions of SunOS). I was dreading having to recompile a new set of utilities in /usr/local.

I came across your site and downloaded the binary package and all works great. I stuffed around for an hour because I didn't read your instructions (re: pkgadd), but that was my own silly fault on top of my lack of experience.

I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail with a note of sincere gratitude for the work you have done in putting all of this together. It is extremely appreciated. No need to reply (unless of course you want to).

You are doing wonderful job of supporting all these packages on Solaris.

I was just here downloading software again and though I might just say thanks for all of the time that you have saved me.

First - congratulations on a great site! I'm sysadmin for a small network of about 15 machines engaged on IC design and this sort of thing is very helpful.

Nice site!!

This is a fantastic site. If I had a lot of money I'd pay you.

First: you did an excellent job with the sunfreeware site. I have picked up many stuffs from there over time -- saved me lots of compilation time. Many thanks for your service.

I would like to thank you for presenting the software on your server. My problem was, that i have not much experience with compiling the software on UNIX- Systems! With your pre-compiled versions of the software, it was easy to add the the software to my Intel- based Solaris 7 PC! It works fine!

I hope you are still offering the Software in the future!

Thanks! (For the package and for the help.)

Thanks for maintaining the site. It's saved me much time.

Really like your web page.

You have done a great job administering this site and the applications on it.

Just a quick note to say you dudes are the best. Thanks for all the work you do to keep sunfreeware.com alive and well. It saves A LOT of time and hair pulling to be able to get the precompiled stuff from your site.

Thanks for your help, Steve!

Thank you for your help, Mr. Christensen.

Thanks for your help and I'm very pleased with the results using your collections!

Thank you very mach for your time and help. It seems like netCDF installed successfuly. I have no words to express my thanks.

Your site has answered many of the questions that have come up on my first encounter EVER with a SPARC/Solaris 2.6. If it wasn't for your site I would not have come so far. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Thank you for having such a wonderful site. It is really appreciated.

Right On .. Right On .. Right On!! The Solaris Freeware site is the best. Thank You!

Your site has helped my job immensely!!!

I needed GCC for the obvious reason, that I could not afford to buy the compiler after emptying my account for the computer. I have just made a partial switch up? from Linux to Solaris and find bash and the rest of the GNU stuff to a comfort.

Three cheers for your Site!!

I want to thank you for taking your time to help me.

Thanks Steve!!! I didn't notice that.....

Thank you VERY much indeed. I've simply created a /usr/local folder, leaved the package as it was and lo and behold! installation went without a glitch.

Sorry for bothering you, but your help had been essential.

Steve ..
Right On .. Right On .. Right On!! The Solairs Freeware site is the best.
Thank You!

Many thanks - you are absolutely right.

You're doing a great job with this site, i have found many useful utilities and tools from here.

Keep Up The Good Work

Thank you!!

First of all, thanks so much for your Solaris Freeware Project effort, very nice help for solaris system administrators.

This website is extremely useful. If I come across any software NOT available at this site, I'll certainly inform you. Thank you.

Congratulations for your work : that helps a lot.

Thank you very much for the quick response!

Wonderful! This site saved me a considerable time (not to mention being a source of binary gcc, without which I wouldn't have got anywhere).

I am very impressed and grateful for the sunfreeware.com site. It has been so useful!

> Thanks for running such a great service as sunfreeware.com. You've > saved me and many others countless hours!

I found your site VERY useful in getting my SPARC box up-to-par GNU-wise.

I really appreciate the work you do here. While some try unendingly to shaft the users here you are going the extra mile to help people for free. Sometimes I despise this industry, but when I see sites like this I remember that there are still some pretty good people out there.

Keep up the fine work.

Thanks for the great software !

First of all I would like to thank you for the Solaris freeware page. I use it extensively for all those useful and popular tools. Downloading pre-packaged versions of these programs saves me a lot of time and probably frustration trying to get it work.

Just wanted to drop you note and thank you for the site. It has made my life MUCH easier.

Thank you so much for keeping up the SunFreeware page. It has been invaluable to me and my team...

Thanks again for all you've done for the Solaris community!

Thx for all useful packages.

SunFreeWare project is great.

First I want to thank you for what you have done with sunfreeware.com. As a college student, any time I can save money or time I feel great.

Thanks a million for keeping sunfreeware.com.

Thanks for maintaining www.sunfreeware.com, we find it an invaluable resource.

Your site is -- as you have probably been told -- wonderful.

I had success downloading the precompiled version of gcc 2.95.2 on the sun freeware site. I have the sun developer workshop installed and the gcc 2.95.2 precompiled executables in /usr/lib. I trashed the gcc 2.95.2 that I had compiled myself and am exclusively using the precompiled sun freeware version of gcc. Seems to work. To those having problems, I recommend downloading the precompiled version and running it from /usr/local. Damn curious problem.

First, wanted to say I've found this site very useful both at work and home for quite a while. Thanks!

I am overwhelmed (+surprised) by your prompt replies.

I've used your site in support of Admining Solaris servers for developers for years. I don't know if you get paid for this, but please accept my thanks & gratitude for your work.

I really find your site easy to use and the applications provided all pre-packaged for me really easy to install and use. It made learning Solaris a much easier experience. Thanks for providing these resources to beginning useres, and advanced users alike.

First (and foremost) thank you for a great website, sunfreeware.com!

First let me congratulate you on a most useful website! The site has saved me time and hassle on numerous occassions. A site well done!

As a matter of fact, your site has been instrumental in helping me find the tools I'm used to having for Linux. I've downloaded quite a lot from you, and have a few more things to get. I'm also leading a small certification project for my work, and I am going to include your site in the "most important links" page. I really feel the learning curve is aided by doing this stuff with whatever you want to do; but the stock tool kit that comes on the Solaris cd is a bit lacking. Things like a C compiler, gzip, current versions of bind, etc.

Again, I really appreciate the work you've done, and look forward to helping others by introducing them to your site.

First, thank you for this most useful site. It has provided me with excellent tools.

I'm a "Solaris 7 user" and I'd like to thank you for your very useful Sunfreeware site.

I appreaciated your work especially when I was able to install on my machine several useful packages for my research work.

Thank you for all your help. You have been a true friend.

"You are good man Steve C."
Thanks a lot.

I remember, not at all fondly, compiling gcc & emacs, for days on end, first for SunOS & again when we upgraded to Sol2.5. The tweaking & waiting were powerful motivators to put off upgrading the OS as long as possible.

Now, thanks to your efforts, it's an hour's work at most to get most everything I need from GNU up & running. Accept the pkgadd defaults & it just works!

My hat's off to Sun, also, for supporting your work. Your site is the best argument I've seen for not moving my development environment to linux.

I just wanted to write and thank you for all the effort that has obviously gone into the Sun freeware site. We recently bought an Ultra10 and hadn't realised that it would come without a C compiler (all our previous experience was with HP workstations which include a C compiler). Your site solved the problem with the precompiled gcc package. We have since downloaded quite a number of other packages, all without any problems.

On a personal note, I'd like to thank you for putting a page like the Solaris page up. I recently got Solaris 8 for the Intel platform and I'm dying to have it take over from Windows (if I can ever get it to talk with my Etherlink card). The company I work for runs a dedicated Solaris and a dedicated NT for hosting purposes and over the past 4 months I've had to reboot the NT numerous times while the Solaris hasn't even gone down. I'm so looking forward to that reliability on my desktop.

I've downloaded your CVS and rcs packages for Solaris 2.6 and they have worked fine. Thank You for your website. It's great. Everything has worked fine.

I found out about the sunfreeware site and think that you and all of those who put it together have done a great job.

Your site is a very useful place. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I love your website, both the software and the explanations!

Thank you very much for all your work. You have saved me a lot of time building a number of important tools.

Simply fantastic. A tremendous time saver!

First, kudos to you for providing such a useful service. My new employer has an *extremely* heterogeneous Sun environment (2.5, 2.6, 7, *and* 8) and it's been invaluable to download precompiled packages for each flavor.

thank you very much...
you are so kind !!

Thanks for your help, and thanks for your work on this site it has been a big help!

Thanks for your wonderful work.

Your collection of Solaris freeware is a very good site, and we rely on it very much. Thank you!

First off, thanks for this great site. It's awesome!

Thank you Steve for your help. Now I know that there is Sunshine in the Sun.

I just wanted to say thanks for the great job you do for the sun / solaris user community of which I am an incoming member.

Congratulations to have a excellent site !!

I just wanted to extend a "thank you" for the work you've done on making this software more accessible to the Solaris/SPARC community.

I use it _extensively_ for all my Solaris networks.

Again, thank you!

First let me thank you for the job you and your team did. You brought freedom to the Solaris and that made it twice stronger.

Thank you very much for your fast and good help.

Thanks very much for making sunfreeware.com available! We primarily use Solaris here, and I've always wished that installing all the GNU utilities and other freeware was as easy as RPMs on RedHat. Packages make system administration much easier when you have a lot of nodes to maintain.

This is a wonderful site and all this effort is much appreciated. Thanks!

This is great. I didn't want to believe. It Works. It really works all this great stuff.

As is probably the case with most web developers, I am under enormous pressure to get things going quickly. I can't thank you enough for the fantastic organization of your site. I had a Sparc 10 to configure, and thanks to your site, it was up in about two hours instead of days.

Great job on the site!

Your site is great.

sunfreeware.com is lovely, I've used it quite a bit setting up a couple of solaris machines here at the office. I've just realised I'm going to be using it a lot more as time goes by, so I'm setting up a local mirror here (from mirrors.xmission.com, just to prevent overloading you too much)

Anyway, thanks, it's saved gobs of time. :)

After downloading a bunch of stuff from SunFreeware over the years, I finally got around to punching the "how you can help" button ...

OK, so I'm a little slow.

In any case, your making available installable packages of Solaris binaries has been a significant help to me, and, I would imagine, to many others. Making the jump from Unix beginner to something more advanced is pretty tough, and those packages of yours have aided my transition greatly.

Thanks a ton.

Thanks for all the great apps.

Subject: Your site

rules :-)

Thanks much.

Thanks for maintaining a great site. Your pre-compiled programs come quite useful to me....I don't need to even compile them which was a big hassle earlier.
Thanks again!

Thanks for the freeware! I was working at a client site and needed to run some perl scripts, but the client did not have an installation on any of their systems. I f the perl file for solaris 2.6 and installed it in no time flat. This was a great help. Regards.

Your site is the single most useful site I have ever used.

Your site has been a time and energy saver for me. Thank you for making my life alot easier. I contract mostly, so I move from place to place often. Your packages have made it possible for me to get more done in less time with the added benefit of leaving behind me manageable environments for "the next guy".

First of all let me say you're doing a great job mantaining those packages for people like me who begins in Solaris world.

I have been downloading some packages from your sunfreeware.com site recently and I must send you highly complimentary email.

I do not know how I would get by in creating and using a Solaris system without such a complete and well organized site. I did much of my early development on SunOS and Solaris at a previous company and we constantly struggled to find and build current software.

Now I have a company of my own and we suddenly need a Solaris system for some work. I was fortunate to find a cheap old system on eBay and then I turned to your site for software. I have had better luck than I could have ever imagined getting it all working.

Forget luck, it has all been flawless--bash, emacs, perl, gcc, make, tar, all the critical development tools have been a snap to download and install on my new system.

So, thank you and good luck.

I would first like to thank you for the great job you're doing with sunfreeware.com! It is a great resource and has helped me and the entire Sun community quite a bit. Keep up the good work!

Your site is just brilliant - I'm installing your Solaris 2.7 binaries and the amount of time and pain you're saving me is considerable. Thank you!

That was it! Thanks for helping a unix dummy! (It's usually these steps that keep people like me away from the real operating system!) Together with StarOffice, xv, ghostscript and gimp this makes it easy to leave the Microsoft world!

First, many thanks for running sunfreeware - it's most useful!

Kudos for the installer for SUNfreeware :-)

I would just like to thank you for your effort in making the freeware software available on the Sparc/Solaris platforms.

I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for two years now and I love working with it. However, there are items I love on the Linux environment which I could not find on Solaris. With your project, you have made these very useful utilities available on these platforms therefore helping me a lot in my work.

Again, thank you so much and more power to your project!

This site is the most useful on the Web!!

Your site is great...

Great site BTW!!

Thanks for all the great work you do!

Many thanks to Steve for collecting such useful software in one place!

The Web Start Wizards work very well!

Oodles of praise for your work with sunfreeware.com!!

Thx a lot, Steve.

Your site is great, and has been much help over the years.

You have an excellent site, keep up the good work.

I found you site to be extremely helpful in locating software for Solaris.

Really enjoy your web-site. It's helped me out quite a bit over the years.

I thank you very much on provide the sun community such an excellent source of software.

Congratulation for your web site !

I am very impressed by the range of products available on your site.

Your site is amazing being living here in village in remote of pakistan it is like gift of God.

Thanks Steven for your prompt reply!

Congrats on your excellent site.

Thank you. It works. Your instant reply truly surprises me.

I find your site very useful and refer many people at the U to your site. So far, everybody has been satisfied.

Thanks for providing this service.

Thank You! This is what I need. :-)

Thanks for the very impressive site.

Thank you for your quick response.

PS: Thanks for a the great leg work over these many years -

sure has made my life a LOT easier. :-)

Subject: Yet another thanks for sunfreeware.com

It bailed out my hindquarters Big Time on a consulting project I just did in Madrid, Spain!

Just adding a few packages (gcc, tcsh, vim, tar, less, make, gzip, wget, maybe one or two more) that a confirmed Linux and GNU goonie like me expects, and we are off to the races!

I travel a lot internationally, would be happy to send you some kind of goodie as a token of thanks for running one of the most useful sites on the internet!

Please let me know (next trip is probably Mexico...)

Thank you very much, it is very useful.

You pointed me in the perfect direction and now I can do all my bits and bobs with perl and all that sort of thing.

Thank you :o)

P.S. Obligatory thanks for the site - I use it all the time! Keep up the great work!

By the way sunfreeware.com is a most useful resource, thanks again!

Thanks for your help it is very useful.

Your website has been a life saver for me, it has a lot of stuff available which i don't even know. Very resourceful site for Solaris users. Kudos to you. You really put a lot of hard work on your website, keep up the good job.

you the man.
thank you

Thanx for a very good initiative.
This is a great site for getting Solaris apps.

Many thanks for your great work. I�m a novice to Solaris and withour your packages I would be even in deeper trouble! ;)

Thanks for running sunfreeware - it's great to have all the common tools in the same place.

I found your web page very useful.

Keep up the good work with sunfreeware.com, it has saved me and my colleagues huge amounts of time in different SW-projects. Good quality software, just ready to go.

Wanted to say that your site has saved me on several occasions when I needed a binary and just didn't have the time to compile. Thanks again;-)

This is Peter from the Netherlands. I just wanted to let you know that I've downloaded quite some packages from you site (or the fast mirror in Germany.)

I just found sunfreeware and it's awesome, thanks!!!.

Thanks for this extremely useful site. I has saved me an enormous amount of time.

Thanks for maintaining such a terrific site - I really depend on it.

Your site is an excellent source for Solaris binaries.

I like adding GNU stuff from your packages, it makes quite easy.

Thanks god that you operate such site. I am novice to the UNIX platform and I operate an ISP in a small country Nepal.

Thanks for a great site :). I use it a lot in my work as a part-time sysadmin at our university department.

I have found your Sun freeware site very useful, especially for SPARC/Solaris 8 pacckages.

Thanks for the site and I hope it will continue to bring good value to all out there in the Systems Integration field, the same way that I have found it to be.

This is an awesome service you are providing, one that certainly helps folks using Solaris take advantage of so much great GPL software.

Keep up the good work! (from an ibm.com site!)

Thanks again for the assist!!

Thank you for hosting such an excellent support site for solaris.

Sunfreeware is great. I am here frequently.

Subject: You ROCK!

You ROCK! You ROCK! And dare I say it again, YOU ROCK!! This site is all that AND a bag of chips! Sun should give you a medal and a fat check.

Thanks alot for all your wonderful work.

this is a great site on internet.

Congratulations

First let me say how much I appreciate you managing the Sunfreeware site. I always look here when I need a package. Having many useful tools in one place is great.

You have a GREAT site!

I am grateful that someone takes the time to compile and package things and places them on a server for others to use.

This is an awesome website!!! I tell all my new class mates and friends, go check it out... it's really great!!

thanks :)

Thanks, from an Intel edition Solaris8 newbie!

I just wanted to let you know that I think your site is great. It's nice to have a one-stop site for my Solaris software needs. It has saved me a lot of time as I was actually able to find all the compiled programs I need (an some I didn't think I need) from one site.

Thanks again for your efforts!

Worked! Thank you!

Great site - I use it all the time for fast or new Solaris installs.

I love your site, and use it all the time.

Thanks for the reply. I've been on a Solaris Fault Analysis course over the last week. I've passed your site's URL alone to everyone at the learning center. Thanks for the Great site.

Thanks a lot for a great job!!!!!!!!!

keep up with the good work!

Subject: Great page!

I found your page "sunfreeware.com". It's great!

Just wanted to say thanks... I'm just starting on the Solaris OS, and your packages were referred to me by our Solaris admins for installing on my Intel/Solaris 8 box that I'm using as my test box/personal workstation.

Just wanted to say thank you for your http://sunfreeware.com/ web site.

Thanks for all the great work you have done. I use your site and packages all the time. And most of the packages work without any problems. Thanks!

P.S. Sincere gratitude from my colleagues and me for the great idea of SunFreeware collection.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

First of all, thanks for all your effort to do this site. It save my life lots of times (especially when I wanted to install new software on a box without cc).

From a user in Nepal:

It worked and many many thanks for this great job.

Thanks again for your valuable support. You cannot imagine what is this pleasure to have your support to us at such a far and undeveloped place.

thanks for maintaining this website, it has been a treasure trove for me !!

Thank you, thank you , thank you, and thank you especially for responding so quickly to my posting. I did as you said and everything went perfectly. Thank you for maintaining the site, it is truly invaluable. Much success to you.

Just a quick note to pass on my thanks for your site, www.sunfreeware.com. As an admin of several sparc and intel Solaris boxen (both at JPL/NASA and at home), your site has consistently been of benefit to my work in setting up new systems. While I typically utilize only the GCC, libstd and gzip packages from your site, those are just the tools I need to get on with the business of loading and installing PERL, Apache, SSH and many other utilities on which I and my users rely. Thanks!

I have a Sun Ultra 10 (running sparc/solaris 7) and have found the sunfreeware site very helpful on downloading and installing binaries for our system.

Thanks for a really useful site.

That's great - many thanks.

Absolutely incredible site. Always appreciated is the time that I don't have anyway to compile code for different machines; particularly the GCC compiler.

I've been using Sunfreeware.com for approximately a year now, and it has been an invaluable resource.

First I just want to say that your site has been very useful for me!

Thanks a lot for your help.

Thank You very much Steve !! Gimp now work !!!

This Operating System is Excellent !!

Good Work !

Subject: Re: fmirror

works a dream UNIX (2.6 <-> 2.7), thanks a million!

(NT remains a dog)

Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

I love the service that you have provided.

Very cool site.

I have used the software from SUNFREEWARE for some time now and am quite happy with the site! Thanks, Keep up the great site!

***enter ass kissing mode***

cheers for the site, believe me it has helped big time!!!

***exit ass kissing mode***

You've got a really cool site going on with www.sunfreeware.com!

BTW, great job on the web site. It's the most comprehensive I've seen thus far. Keep up the great work :)

Your site has been a great help to me over the past year. Especially in the area of installing Intel packages. It has saved me many, many hours of administration time.

Thanks again, and thanks for having a cool web site!

Oh yeah, thanks for all the good work on the site!

I first want to say thanks for maintaining a truly wonderful and helpful site. It has saved hundreds of hours.

Thanks and good job!

Thanks for maintaining a great site. It is very easy to read and use.

I love this site. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Thanks for doing an awesome job providing free software for Solaris. It makes my job a lot easier.

Your site is a lifesaver! You've made getting a binary of gcc is so easy.

Thank you!!! :)

Continue with your fine work !

Thanks very much for maintaining sunfreeware, without it I'd be digging around for gcc for a while there.

first off thanks for maintaining the sun freeware site. its an excellent resource!

I like the Sunfreeware site and find it very useful. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

- Your project is really great, i enjoy your ports since Solaris 7.

Nice site...

let me start off by saying your sunfreeware site rules and i use it all the time.

Thank you for your help & time !!!

PS Great site! lots of good resources and source/packages for new users keep up the good work.

we very much appreciate your site www.sunfreeware.com.

your answer came so fast. That is so cool! Thanks a million for the link ...

Thanks for the quick reply Steven, the sunfreeware site is great!

You and the help you give on the Sun.Freeware site is outstanding, you have helped me and my associates many times over.

Thanks for contributing to www.sunfreeware.com. Your site alone makes buying a new sun worth it.

First thanks for putting together such a terrific website for prepakaged Unix software installs.

First of all, thanks for making these packages available; it's a great service. I especially appreciate the availability of gcc...it's a pain in the butt to compile from old binaries.

Thanks again for making www.sunfreeware.com available -- I just told a friend about it this past weekend, and his eyes lit up. :-)

I just wanted to take a moment to say "thanks" for the great web site. www.sunfreware.com has been most useful to me!

But thanks - your site always saves lots of time setting up a new machine. :)

Your site is impressive and judging from the comments I've read, you certainly know your stuff. Thank you for your time and for maintaining a great resource site.

You're doing a great job on sunfreeware.com!!! Thanks so much, it makes my life SO much easier not to have to compile all this stuff myself! Keep up the good work!

THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH !!!

Thanks for the effort,
I love the ease of precompiled packages.

I thought I had done this before, but as it turns out this works like a champ. I am now forever in your debt.

Great site! Thanks and thanks!

Many thanks for your help!

Great job, Steve!
I love your Sunfreeware.com site...

It works!
Thanks for help.

Thanks for the quick reply! Please keep up the GREAT work!

Thank you very much for creating/maintaining sunfreeware.com it has been a great time saver for me when it comes to finding my most needed utilities already compiled and ready to go. Thanks again!

Thanks again, and thanks for having a cool web site!

Thank you for the very useful site. I use it everytime I setup a new Solaris machine. It is a great resource and has almost all of the software I use.

the freeware site is great!

Subject: sunfreeware RULES

I am a journeyman UNIX administrator consultant. Your sunfreeware page has made my job soooo much easier for as long as I have known about it.

It is a most excellent project, and I thank you deeply for your efforts.

Congratulations for the great work you do with sunfreeware.com.

This quick email to told you that the packages at sunfreeware helped me a lot as I am a newbie in Solaris. Now I feel confident enough to compile from the source tarball.

Thanks for the work you deserved.

Great site.
Keep up the good work with the site.

Thanks Steve for all you effort! your help is very appriciated!

Thanks a million.

That worked - Many thanks for your patience and kudos on an excellent resource.

Hey you're site has saved me a lot of time, just wanted to say thanks!

Let me thank you for putting these packages out there for everyone. As someone new to Solaris 7 as an Admin I have found your site very helpful.

I appreciate your website on Solaris.

Thanks so much for operating the sunfreesoftware site.
It's made getting my home SPARCstation 2 running so much easier...

It worked!! Thank You so much I really appreciate it.

Great job on the site. It literally saved me a days worth of work getting my Solaris box up and I am eternally grateful. ;)

Thanks for the tip. Also, you have a great site. It is extremely convenient to have a place with all of the commonly needed stuff pre-packaged for the Sun environment. Especially for someone like myself, who is not entirely comfortable with compilers, make files and the like.

Many thanks for your valuable work in preparing and maintaining a site with good Public Domain SW for Solaris!

It worked! Thanks for your help...

Just a note to thank you for your work with the sunfreeware.com site. I use the site almost daily - I administer 60+ solaris servers across Canada, plus some in the USA and Germany, and your service has saved me dozens if not hundreds of hours' work over the years.

I find your site a magnificent resource, btw. I use it all the time, since our compiler is mucked up.

Hey, appreciate all your Sunfreeware.COM efforts over the years!

THANX FOR SUNFREEWARE.COM!

Again, thank God for your site.

Thanxz steve im so greatfull 4 ure help . .

Thank you, I was looking at the wrong Solaris version category. It works now. Thank you for all you do.

For years, SunFreeware.Com has been the first place I go after installing Solaris on a machine. Your collection of well-packaged and useful software saves me hours each time. This truly is a wonderful resource.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for an excellent site which I have used many times to get me out of trouble!

I just wanted to drop a line of thanks. This site has come in handy numerous times.

Thanks for providing these pre-compiled packages! It really saves us a lot of time.

Let me remark that the sunfreeware server was often very useful for my work.

Thank you for the great work!

Congratulations on your site. I have used and recommended it often ?

First of all - you've got one hell of a site!! Well Done!! Keep up the good work.

I've downloaded and pkgadd'd gcc and make which went on so easily I just couldn't believe it!! If you could get INN up and running in the same fashion you'll have a devotee for life!! Many, Many, Many thanks from just one of the many many many users out there!!

Thank you again, sometimes its hard to see your own issues. I love your site, its a great help/resource and your packages are developed in a logical, well planned manner.

First of all - you've got one hell of a site!! Well Done!! Keep up the good work.

thankx for fast help!!!

Thanks heaps Steve, you're the greatest!!

Thanks for the prompt accurate response!

Thank you for your help!!! The script works wonderfully...

Thanks a lot Steve.

Thanks again Steve for responding quickly and for the help!

Thanks Steve,
After stumbling over this stuff for about 6 hours - I finally wound up doing just what you suggested!
Thanks again!

I have found your site extremely useful, it has saved me a good deal of time and stress in the last few weeks. It's well presented, all the downloads (that I've had anything to do with) work straight off, and there's a good range of useful software up there.

Thanks again for an extremely useful site.

First the comliments for maintaining all the Sun associated software underneath Sunfreeware.com !!!

That works great-
I thank you kindly!

Thank you!!!

I've been looking for what to do with the binary after it's on the machine. It was not intuitively obvious to me. Your instructions are the only ones I've found.

Many thanks for your past help. I was one of your customers who downloaded your gcc and then discovered that my machine had no /usr/include headers... Thanks to your very complete FAQ (!) I've been able to pull all the necessary heaader packages off a Solaris_2.6 cdrom and I'm up and compiling!

You're VERY welcome! Thanks for all your great work!

YES!!!! I d/l'd it and it works *almost* perfectly! Fantastic! Thanks!

So far, it works great! I'll let you know if I have any problems with it.

So, once again, thanks a million! BTW, how do you make any money with your site? Does Sun pay you? They *should*!

Thanks for the great service you are providing. This web site makes jumpstarting a Solaris box much easier.

I wanted to thank you for maintaining an invaluable site, sunfreeware.com.

Thanks for the great site!

Thanks for your help.
Because your help I found "tcpwrapper".
Thank you again.

thx in advance for your help, time, and kickass site.

You're the man! Thanks a bunch.

I'm building gtklib as I write this. Thanks so much for your website. I just changed jobs, and I'm trying to get my Unix environment to feel like 'home', I wanted to get enlightenment up and running, and your site MAKES THIS EASY! You have all the relevant libs in one location, this is much easier than the first time I tried to build it via trial and error.

So far the build for Solaris 2.6 is going well.

I can't express how your site has helped me to gain some control over my work environment.... this is the first time I have been within a corporation where I can't admin root on my own Unix machines !ugh!. Being able to build and run my own window manager is helping me cope with the "big-brother" mentality here.

Your freeware sight is incredibly helpful - I use it almost monthly.

First, thanks a lot for your work with Sunfreeware. It's an excellent service: Much easier to talk the sysadmin into installing new neat stuff when he can just pick the precompiled packages from your site!

Thanks for your site... This is very, very, useful site that me, and my company, use a lot :)

love your site, lots of useful stuff

Thanks again for putting so much good stuff in one organized place. It's a great service to the Solaris community.

BTW: Thanks **VERY** much for maintaining this amazing solaris freeware package site -- it is an extremely handy resource.. and everything I've installed from there has worked painlessly / perfectly every time :-) !

Your site has been extremely helpful to me.

This is a "highly complimentary email" as I have used your site to get my machines up and going in record time. I've enjoyed this site, and what it offers for a long time, and really appreciate all the work you do to keep it going.

I can't thank you enough. This is without question the fastest work I've seen... This really helps.

I just wanted to send a big "Thank You" your way. Your site is a lifesaver for anyone who does an install of Solaris. (And I prefer your GNUware packages over the ones Sun provides with Solaris 8.)

As always, the sunfreeware site is looking great. You are doing a fabulous job with it. I hope Scott McNealy is sending you an honorarium check every so often -- you certainly deserve it!

Thanks for the work. It is especially useful when bootstrapping a box.

Thanks for the hint. You gave me enough info to figure out what to do.

A billion thank you's to you Sir!!! And keep up the good work!

I really like the site and it is very helpful.

Congratulations for the excellent work you have been doing.

You've got a great site; thank god for the fact that I can get gcc so easily.

HI STEVE!
THANKS! :)

G'day - thanks for the excellent site. With pkg-get and sunfreeware.com it help makes development life on Solaris a pleasure.

Thank you, and thanks for a VERY useful website.

I must thank you for your terrific resources on sunfreeware.com.

nice site, a very very big time saver. keep up the good work :-)

I would like to thank all the people at sunfreeware which is really helpful!

I've found your Sun Freeware site wonderful. I've downloaded several utilities for my Solaris x86 system at home.

Thanks ... very useful site, by the way,

Great site Steve ... it been a great resource since I just got my first sun box about 7 days ago.

I'd like to begin by saying that I think your website is excellent. It has been a help to me many times.

Thanks for providing an excellent resource on how you make your packages.

Found your sunfreeware.com page. Very nice.

Thanks for your wonderful work...

First, since this is my first time writing to you, I just want to extend my thanks for maintaining what I believe is one of the most useful and needed vendor support sites on the net today; keep up the good work.

Many thanks for your kind help.

Thanks for providing such a great resource!

BTW, sunfreeware.com is cool. I saved myself a lot of time and energy with your gzip and gcc pkgs.

Thanks for your time, and for all the other goodies I've already installed.

thx for all the great stuff!

I would like also to express my gratitude for your work, which I believe has been very helpful to Solaris system administrators around the world.

Thank you for all of the time and effort you have put into the sunfreeware site, I have downloaded dozens of apps from the site, and it is an extremely valuable and time saving resource.

First off, let me say that I'm very thankful and appreciative for the huge help that your site is to the Solaris/Sun community. I've used your site many times to download things I've not been able to compile for some reason or another, or have been just to lazy to compile. Great work!

Subject: Kudos!

You the man.. Thanks for this rockin site.. All the tasty Solaris apps I want, all in one location.

Thank you for your work! I have used your packages in numerous production environments with the boss' blessings, and I use them for personal use as well. They save us time and money and provide very necessary software that Sun does not include in their distributions.

I'd like to thank you for running sunfreeware.com. I find this to be one of the most invaluable resources on the Internet relating to Solaris.

Better than ever! Unlike so many "hobby" sites, you keep growing, branching out, & generally sprucing things up. Thanks for all the new offerings for Solaris 8. I don't know how you find the time.

Great site. I use it all of the time to make my Solaris system more friendly and usable, not to mention self-sufficient.

I would like to thank you for the tools that you have on this site.

Hats off to your site; it has been immensely helpful!

Just wanted to say thanks for the great work on the sun free ware site. It is of immense help to us (using Solaris 7 & 8).

Thanks for the great job on sunfreeware.com.

I found your site very interesting and I thank you for giving so much informaion to users such as us.

thanks for this great site! i'll do all i can to help it out..

Thanks Steve!

Thanks again for the handiest site on the set.

Again, thanks for your work on SunFreeware!!

You are doing a great job with the "sunfreeware" project.

Your website is great!!!

Great site ... thanks !

Thanks for running this site. We are using software/tools from your site. Really it helped lot.

Please, let me *thank* *you* for this valuable service !

I've used Solaris a bit and find www.sunfreeware.com very useful.

Subject: Kudos galore

I notice that all your comments are positive raves about your website. Normally this would provoke me to ironic laughter, but in this case I think this is very well-deserved! The service you provide leaves me speechless with admiration!

Perfect. Thanks alot and keep up the great work!

first of all thank you for all the work you invested in www.sunfreeware.com. It is really quite handy to get all this stuff precompiled.

I just discovered, at http://www.sun.com/software/sysadmin/downloads/descPub.html, your FTP/web site: http://sunfreeware.com/. It's a nice feature for new-to-Solaris admin's. Thanks for putting it together!

First of all thanks for sunfreeware.com which is a very useful site :)

As a Unix/Sun admin for many years, I really appreciate the site you have compiled and the good organization and presentation of content.

Owning 2 personal systems, as well as managing several sites around the world, I find the quick access you provide, to the tools I need and use, to be essential.

Keep up the good work!

sunfreeware.com has been a big help. I develop and test software for Western Washington University. I like parts of Solaris x86, but I'm a FreeBSD guy at heart, and there's a lot of free software that makes my desktop a lot better. Without gcc and some of the other packages from sunfreeware.com, I couldn't compile this software, and I'd go nuts, and really hate using my work machine.

First of all let me congratulate you ab. your job. Its Great!

First I have to thank you for your great work! I'm using FreeBSD since years and was happy with the ports collection but now I changed to Sun Hardware and Solaris 8 and I think without your work, I would never be able to manage those systems :)

Thanks for the great job and help you provide!

you know, I used to be hardcore about compiling my own compiler, bu the sunfreeware binary distro is excellent. I guess if I was a software guy instead of an SA, I'd be more picky, but for about 90% of all applications, the sunfreeware one seems great.

This is a highly complimentary message, stating that SunFreeware has turned my life into complete joy, full of happiness.

Steve, just a note to say I appreciate the time and effort at the sunfreeware site.

I am a new Ultra 5 owner, and after 16 years of almost-exclusive MacOS use I am struggling to find those little bits of knowledge that just aren't in the manuals.

I found the FAQ, install instructions, etc. all valuable reading.

Thanks for the good work.

Thanks for a GREAT! site. It has saved me a lot of time.

Many, many thanks for an *excellent* site - a real life-saver!

I am a big fan of your Sunfreeware site. It helps me and my coworkers save a lot of time and stress by using your precompiled packages. I have also found the packaging instructions a very helpful place to start in my quest to learn Solaris packaging. I have created quite a few custom packages for over 125 hosts and 3 flavors of Solaris. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

First, I have to thank you for all the wonderful work that you've done over the years in making sunfreeware.com an amazing resource. I've used it since Solaris 2.5.1, and will continue to "jump start" all my installations with your amazing packages.

Just a quick note to thank you for your work. I use the pkgs from your site to setup my machine here and know that a lot of the other "techies" do so as well (since we are the only ones with root access to our machines and we can take responsibility if we stuff ourselves up ;-) ). Keep up the good work.

I really like your site. Keep up the good work.

This is a great piece of work. I was able to set up a sun machine in a hurry with all the tools we needed!

You have one of the best sites out there, and I hope it keeps going

lately I have been working on a hell lot of packages... Basically it is simple, but I used the "official Application Packaging Developer Guide" first B- too much overhead. Your 0 to 100 tutorial is perfect, I will tell all my Admin friends to look for! Ok, enough complimentary stuff.

Your sunfreeware site is great, especially for a unix/Solaris newbie like myself.

Thanks for your wonderful site. I have Linux PCs and an old SPARC IPX. As SUN don't provide a C compiler anymore, I had only the software bundled with Solaris 7. Thanks to you I obtained GCC and was away. Additionally, you saved me hours of time compiling GNU programs by providing pre-compiled packages. You are a credit to hackers everywhere!!

Hey Steve,
You are really great.
I never got any responses so prompt.
Thanks for your all help. I really appreciate it.

Thanks!

thanx man for so fast reply ;-)!

I really appreciate the work that you have put into your site. As we speak, Python and gcc are on the way to my x86 Solaris 8 box. Also, much thanks about the FAQ and gzip.

I got it all up and running. Thank you very much.
This would have taken a while if ever done at all without your help.
Thanks I owe you one.

Thank you very much. These utils are invaluable.

First off, WHAT A GREAT SITE! Thank you for the endless hours of work that you have saved the masses!

On behalf of all of us here at TRW's Air and Missile Defense Work Station (AMDWS) pronounced "AM-DOOS", I'd like to take this second in time to thank you for all of the unseen support you have given our company.

We build and intregrate software currently for the military and our National Defenses, and it is fantastic to find the latest releases of SunFreeware without having to go into the hunt mode. Your effort hasn't gone without being seen by myself and my co-workers at least if not on a daily basis.

Please continue to strive and make Sun the next Monopoly of computerized systems. Lets put the Microsoft products where they belong. Back on the shelf and out of the reach of children.

Excellent site! i'm so glad you put it up.

You're doing a great job! I'm beginning to rely on your stuff for my Solaris setup.

I have benefited from your web site and I hope and pray to continue to. May you be rewarded richly (somehow) for your yeomen service to the unix family of the world!

Good evening Steve... Your site is outstanding...

After the Bind security announcement recently, I am upgrading Bind on my DNS servers.

However, one of the DNS servers, being by its nature open to attack, is as bare-bones as I could get it, certainly no compiler, no real access to the internal network, etc.

Since Sun have not yet produced a patch, it is great to get a compiled binary to install on my DNS server.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Thanks for running www.sunfreeware site. It's very useful for a lot of us...

Thank you for creating an excellent web site at sunfreeware.com. The level of detail is brilliant.

You are a lifesaver.

Thanks for maintaining sunfreeware.com!

thanks for everything you do, it's very important for us

Checked out your site- what a great resource. Congratulations.

Good website by the way. Its really nice to see a healthy variety of freeware software availible.

Good luck with the site

The Sun freeware site has been a great help. We've had to make a box usable from 2000 miles away, no media anywhere. Your site has made tools we needed available!

I am an EXTREME Solaris newbie, but come from a strong Linux/*BSD background. I wrote to thank you for your efforts in making the HOWTO for packaging under Solaris. You have really increased my liking of Solaris about 50 times. :-) The guide was very straight-forward, accurate and had just the right amount of detail (for experienced Unix geeks like me, anyway).

Thanks so much.

Thanks for the great site!

Thanks for your work. Its very useful getting reference builds for software to try things out.

Thanks for the great repository!

I have been using your site for years and have never been disappointed. Yesterday, my manager came up to me and asked me if I had access to a newer version of BIND. We are building a new Disaster Recovery site and now we have a specific team that handles DNS, or at least more knowledgeable people to ask me questions *SIGH*.

They seem to be very concerned with the security issues around BIND. I came right to your site and *POW* your all over it. I pulled down the newest BIND you have packaged up and have already loaded it on my backup server (Disaster Box).

If you don't hear from me again. Just know that your site is used and appreciated by Admin in the trenches who don't always have a chance to thank the ones who make our life easier.

P.S. your site with all this stuff ready to go has been an absolute revelation for us. If you're the fellow that's done all this my hats off to you.

Thanks man. It worked. Your site is great.

First off, thanks for keeping sunfreeware up and running with such spectacular uptime. Your resources have been invariable when I've been doing installs at remote locations and have found myself desperate for (x) (where x is perl, bash, less, etc., ).

I would like to thank you for the huge time and work saved with your packages.

I think that you are doing a great job, for the solaris users and for solaris :)) many thanks :))))

Thanks again for all of the great Sun packages!

Steve, Your Sun freeware site is a real asset -- thanks a bunch

Thank a lot for your support and kindly help, now, i had installed it on my host successfully. Your spirit of professional is appreciated. You may tell me how to thank you.

Nice job on the web site as well as to the compiling the codes also.

Many, many thanks! That helps more than you can imagine!

What a great job you have done with the Sunfreeware site! A lot of the Sun sysadmins like me would not be doing our jobs if not for all these wonderful tools you have compiled for. Also you have provided all these in such a easy to install form.

Thanks for the info, it works great.

Thanks for your very useful service at "sunfreeware.com"!

You�re site looks great !

Subject: Your pkgadd page

Great info, thanks for putting the effort in.

PS Actually, the whole site has been really useful to me over the last few years.

Thanks Steve.. I will do that. Have a great day !! Your site is awesome!!

hi, thank you for supplying so much freeware for solaris. thank you very much.

Thanks for creating this wonderful site. Keep up the good work.

We used ur gcc version . It came in handy and addressed our needs quickly. It seems to be a vast repository of useful applications.

Thanx and Regards

by the way.. love your site, use it, and tell my solaris buddies when chance allows.

Thanks for providing a great site.

Thank you very much for your help, I have been puzzled by this for the whole day.

Subject: Thanks for the software

I just filled up a freshly installed Sun with software from sunfreeware.com - the point was, that I didn't have any compiler.

So I just had to ftp netscape and with the help of your archive I was done in half an hour :-)

What I want to say is: your site is one of the greatest helpers to Solaris-Admins. I hope you will run that site a long long time...

Thanks again for creating this great resource. I love pkg-get!

First I ask sorry for my english and I'm a brazilian and I had been using Solaris 8 for Intel for the last three days.

On the last three days I was nervous because I wasn't be able to do anything in the system Solaris, because I didn't find any package and any other documents that could help me more with softwares.

Therefore I found your url in the docs.sun.com site that helped me a lot in using this system.

For three years I used the Linux system, after I started using FreeBSD and I tried to use the NetBSD but I didn't obtain the same results that today I have with the Solaris 8 for Intel.

Your site have helped me a lot so I find myself in the obligation to help you too.

Thank you for providing this wonderful resource. I've not come across a better method of getting all the packages I need for supporting the systems in our test and development process.

Beautiful! That works! Thank you!

Thank you very much for all your help and direction!

Thanks!

thanks a lot for the efforts that you put in.

Thank you for all your help. It was invaluable. :-)

As always, bravo! Thanks a million for the great work!

I just wanted to drop you a line and say your efforts are appreciated very much. We are porting our product to SOLARIS and your web site has saved us time and headaches.

I want you to know that your effort has been the best thing that has happened to me in my 10 years as a Sun sysadmin.

The packages I got here for Intel Solaris 8 worked great! I have since created my own packages using the exceptional instructions you've provided. I've got both SPARC and Intel (both 8) running rc4 and rc5 with no problems. Thanks.

You rock, Thanks!

Your information is invaluable. This may be what we're looking for. I thank you very much for your time and assistance. Sun Freeware ... as indispensable as ever :-)

http://sunfreeware.com/ as ever =O)

Thanks very much, you can't imagine how I thank you for such a quick answer.

This is my first time to install the gcc on somebody's system, they requested it. I read all your FAQs and they all very useful. I had no problem to install. I just want to say thank you for all the info on the web site.

Thanks for your work on this site. We would be practically helpless without someone like yourself providing us with packages that are already compiled because we are completely clueless statisticians.

First let me say how great a service you folks are doing for the Solaris community -- the site has made my life much easier on many occasions.

Thank you for a great site. I use it all the time.

First of all Good job!!! It simplifies a lot our job and your explanations are very good. It was quite complicate for us to compile programs because we do not work too much on Solaris but this way the installation is easy.

Thanks mucho for your work on sunfreeware.com. It does make life a lot easier.

Thanks alot for compiling ansitape, this binary works as expected.

In as far as usefulness of Sunfreeware? Ten points!

This is one of the first ports of call for me when looking to set up a new boxen that does not require any special program revisions, I'm only saddened that you do not have the resources to expand into full archives of binary packages at many different revision levels. If you get the chance, feel free to forward this correspondance to sun, requesting more attention to you and your site.

Your quick response to my request was refreshing, thankyou.

Successfully installed. Thank you for your help.

thank you very much!! success install!!

STEVE! YOU DA MAN!!!!

Thanks a lot, guy! You have no idea what a relief it was. It installed perfectly.

I was running into more dependency issues than I could believe trying to compile openldap 2.0.7 myself.

I'll buy the next round!

Now, it works well !!!!!!!

Thanks for your site. It has made life easier for a lot of my admin friends.

Thank you for your sunfreeware.com work! - It's great.

You do run a great site, I've always liked sunfreeware.com

Thanks very much for your quick response,

What can I say, superb, many thanks for the fast response, I think this answers all my questions.

I really appreciate your site, it has been very useful!

First of all, what I wonderful site you have. Very useful.

Thanks very much!

ah that's it !!! never again

it's amazing how nicely it configures, and compiles now.

Thanks for all your help Steve.

I have found sunfreeware extremely useful and have pointed many people to it.

First off, www.sunfreeware.com is an invaluable resource. It is my preferred location for getting prebuilt packages for Solaris and with only a few exceptions, I can get everything I want there. I don't know how many years I've been using Sunfreeware, but I'm thankful each time I'm building a new Sun box.

Thanks for the great site!

Thanks for your assistance, and thanks again for maintaining such a wonderful resource!

Thanks a lot for you fast reply! I really appreciate the work you are doing.

Let me start by saying that sunfreeware.com is a great resource, and if it were within my power I would award you a Nobel prize for being a really great human being and devoting so much time and energy to the project. No kidding.

Thank you so much Steven;
The only problem was beacuse I didnt have /usr/ccs/bin on my path, your suggestion was brilliant to solve this small big problem, Have a good night and god bless you.

Thanks for your answer and doing a great job on keeping your site up to date, I was very impressed.

Thanks for the useful site.

Thank u very much :)

PS. Great job maintianing this site.

Hi! Greetings from Germany!
Just wanted to tell you that you do a great job with sunfreeware.com! This site saved a lot of time 4 me!!! thx a lot!

Thanks !!!!!!!!

Thanks for that you've done with sunfreeware so far !!!!

Great work on the freeware site! You've saved me a lot of time in the past year or so!!!

I was looking on the SunFreeWare Site (one of the few truly excellent support sites on the Internet for any type of system).

This looks awesome. I'm going to give it a shot.. Thanks for pointing it out!

Thanks for your answer.

Windows ?!?!?!?? I don't even know what it is :-)

Thanks for your site.

Thanks so much for your help.

thanks a lot for adding the user's comment (http://www.sunfreeware.com/notes.html#perl561) on the chapter "How was Perl 5.6.1 compiled on Solaris?".

It may sound a bit stupid, however, I almost got mad about the complaint "language option not installed". Now, I know how to get around this.

Great site !

Thanks Steve! It works!

Thanks a lot Steven

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the free software !

Thanks for doing these builds for us. It sure saves a lot of time and effort.

Thanks heaps for your website - saves us endless hours here trying to compile and manually install all these packages!

I've been using your Sunfreeware site for a while, thanks for that service!

I just wanted to drop you a line to say Thank You! Sunfreeware has always been a trememdous for us admins who need to grab some common util that Sun won't bundle into the OS. I can't count the number of times this site has been able to help me out. This site is very important to the community, and I hope it is around for many years to come.

I admire you for running such a great site.

I thank you very much for all you have been doing for sunfreeware.

Thanks for all your work on sunfreeware.com, it's a great resource!

Thank you for all of the software packages that you make available on sunfreeware.com. Setting up new Solaris boxes is infinitely easier thanks to your efforts. All of your packages work flawlessly and save me tons of time that I would otherwise spend compiling and debugging them. Thank you again, and keep up the good work!

Ps: your site is great, keep up the good work.

Just want to send you a email and again thank you for all your help.

BTW, I absolutely love the freeware site. I have worked at several places that have bans on shareware/freeware, but I have managed to get your site "blessed" as an official source of Sun software at the last few places that I have worked.

First of all I'd like to thank you for keeping the sunfreeware site in such a good shape. I - and my collegues here at Mobilix (Denmarks third largest telephone and ISP company) use it a lot.

Hi Steve!! First of all, thanks for that greak work you do!!

Your site is really great, congratulations for that!

I found your web site very VERY -V E R Y- usefull !

I love your site. I am a new Solaris Admin (i.e. not the most fluent Unix guy in the world) but I am learning. I have downloaded tons and use quite a bit from your site. I appreciate you letting me know about NetaTalk AppleTalk for Solaris, it works great! The installation was a breeze and everything I need simply works on my Ultra5 running 8.

I also very much appreciate the comments you make on your site about what is already included in Solaris8. That helps me quite a bit. So do the warnings about newer files not working with some others (glib with gimp etc.).

Thanks.

Your website helped me a lot to understand some things a Windows guy is not even aware of!

Anyway - great site - keep up the good work - we rely on you!

Thanks for the great resource that is Sun Freeware. This is an essential resource for Solaris admins like me - keep up the great work.

Thanks Steve. Its good to see a quick response to security issues.

Thanks for this and the good work you do by providing Sun Freeware,

I like to first express my appreciation to your works.

Yeah! a site made for real users.

First of all, just want to say that you have a great site.

Thanx! Your response is of the best - if not the best I ever had!

First of all, I have to thank you for the GREAT SITE sunfreeware.com. This helps us lot to save time and free from troubles.

Steve, thanks for the great site.

Thank you for this great list of software on sunfreeware!

I love sunfreeware.com, and have found it very useful.

Thanks for your help, and the great site.

thanks for the hard work.

Well, when it comes to getting a Solaris server up and running I'd be lost without sunfreeware. So kudos and brownie-points to you.

Thank you Steven!

Thanks for the great site.

Yes this helps. Thank you, Steve.

Really thanks by your greatest help !!!

It works. Many thanks, steve.

I've been an avid user of SunFreeware for some time now (Back from the old 2.5.1 days :)

Hi, Steve. First of all, I just wanted to say that I recently acquired a Solaris 8 machine, and the guy who gave it to me strongly suggested looking at your site. It is great!

Thanks again for running such a great site, and keep up the good work!

I must say your SunFreeware site is excellent. A real time saver for those of us looking for easily downloadable Solaris binaries. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Thanks so much Steve!

Thank you for your help.

first of all: my compliments to your sunfreeware-site. So far, I've been happy with all the packages I've downloaded.

I want to thank you so much for being "a light in the dark".

Once again I want to thank you for your time and your help and your concern and for being someone out there that I could ask about some very obscure symptoms.

Thanks again.

thanks for your help and keep up the the great work on your site!

Thanks for a really really really great site.

I want to thank you for the work on Sunfreeware.com. It has been a valuable resource for me and my organization.

Marvellous site, Used it for ages and the best around for solaris s/w.

great site

Thanks for keeping up a great site.

Keep up the great site!

First of all, you ROCK MAN! What a wonderful service you provide with sunfreeware.com. You have saved me a ton of time by making the latest GNU development tools available! Thought I would have had to use the Sun Companion CD's gcc and then manually compile every GNU tool I needed.

Again, thanks for making the sunfreeware site available and for spending time keeping it up-to-date. Hopefully this information will help someone else.

Just a happy sunfreeware user.

Subject: Packaging

Steve,

I found your article very useful.

thank you!!!

WoW! What a spontaneous response! Good man, you are really a professional.

thank you very much for your help :-)

First I will say that it is a great job you are doing.

Thanks for the info.

I did not know that there were that much freeware for Solaris.

thanks again for providing such an amazing service to the sun/solaris community. your site has been an invaluable resource in building machines and a helpful teaching tool on how to make Solaris packages.

BTW, a *BIG THANKS!* for doing all this.

I just wanted to drop you a quick note letting you know how much I really appreciate your site and the tremendous effort that you've put into it. My first foray into learning Solaris (just before 8 came out) was made a lot easier simply because you had gzip available in a pkgdd format. Since then, your site has been a great benefit to novice users of Solaris like myself.

Thanks again for spending your valuable time to put up this site to share with the community, it's very appreciated!

While killing some time in Dallas TX (cousin's wedding) this past weekend I came across Paul Watters book "Solaris Administration, a Beginner's Guide" at Barnes and Noble. Having used yoru web site for about 6 months now your work has been a savor to me as a new Solaris Admin. Thank you for your work and for writing the forward on Mr. Watters book. With your name on the book, purchasing it was a simple decision.

BTW, your site is really great. I armed my Sun computer (solaris 2.8) with many softwares from your site. Thank you.

I know from past experience that alot of sysadmins regard your site as Mecca (so you can imagine the great esteem in which they hold you!).

Thank you very much. That did it.

I'm an administrator of WEB and E-mail servers here in San Jos�, Costa Rica. We use Microsoft platform to all our services with good sucess. I want to thank you for your hard effort to make Solaris 8 x86 a viable platform for the Unix inexperience administrator. You effort to the packages is awesome. My best thumbs up.

thanks for the cool website!!

great site!

From the gnu.gcc.help newsgroup:

A much better idea, IMHO, is to go to www.sunfreeware.com and download the compiler, the lib(s), binutils, and whatever you wish.

thanks for the help!

Subject: Great Site!

I just installed Solaris 8, and I found your site to be excellent for information on what I needed.

Great Job!

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the help !

Thank you VERY VERY much!
You realy helped me!

You are a very good man. Thank you.

That worked - thanks.

Awesome service!

First and foremost I must thank you for your great site, sunfreeware.com. Without it, I would have spent a lot of time building and maintaining the software I'd define as building blocks of a system (gcc, diff, rcs etc..).

Thanks for your previous help. If you ever visit Kyoto in Japan give me a call and I'll show you around some of the more interesting spots in town.

Thanks for maintaining a great web site.

Great job with the Sunfreeware page.

Subject: Fabulous site

Steven,

I can't believe it's all there....everything I'd ever need on sunfreeware.com! Great job.

Thanks for your efforts.

Great site!!! I use it all the time.

Steven, thanks a lot.

thank you! worked liked a champ!

Boy, you sure follow through, I appreciate that and respect that in a world today were things often get put off.

your site is excellent, I go and look there first for any packages.

I wanted to tell you that your site is very useful for us.

Subject: Sunfreeware roxers!

This is a high complimentary email about how wonderful Sunfreeware is.

Thanks for all the good work.

Many thanks to upkeep of the freeware site. It has been invaluable over the last few years!!

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply! Let me say that I sincerely appreciate your efforts in creating the packages.

Steve - Thank you very much.

This is very helpful. Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Wow, sunfreeware is a great resource. I find it very useful.

I just want to say thanks for your service. It saves me a lot of time to browse to sunfreeware.com and pick up the latest version of the package I'm looking for. So again, many thanks!

Thanks for all the hard work you put into sunfreeware. i have been using it quite extensivly over the last year.

Great site, very useful...esp since I'm just a normal Linux/BSD user desperately trying to get gcc to compile my stuff on Solaris 7.

Thanks Steve :-)

Solid, you the man.

Thanks for providing such an excellent service.

First, I want to thank you for all of the help you've given us. You're a godsend.

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know how much I appreciate your web site... I'm new to Sun hardware and I thought all of the cool utilities I used to use in FreeBSD would not be available to me, but your site has most of them... I haven't downloaded anything yet, mainly because I am in the middle of trying to learn the basic system, but it is reassuring to know that the binaries are available...

www.sunfreeware.com rocks!

Sunfreeware just came out with a GCC-3.0.0 binary. Thanks to Steve from Sunfreeware!

Is a great project the site www.sunfreeware.com, I want to congratulation you and all the team that are working on it, it has a lot of useful tools.

Thank you very much for your page.

Great resource, your site has made life considerably easier for me. Keep up the great work, I wish you well in what ever you do ;)

We are the Sun partners in Puerto Rico and we use the site, www.sunfreeware.com, frequently. It's a wonderful tool for our daily work.

Good job as always with this site...

I have been using your site to help me get my server up and running for my new business, and I have found it extremely useful.

Great work on the site... i really depend on it.

Congratulations by excelent work done in sunfreeware.com. Is just the better (and trusted) place where we can get software that all we need.

Thanks for the great web site. I use it quite frequently.

The freeware site is very nice, thanks for the effort.

First of all thanks for the Sunfreeware site. It's an invaluable resource.

Thanks for the site, it's been a HUGE help to me!

Thanks for your fine community work.

Thanks again for Sunfreeware.

Thanks much for this site. We use it weekly.

first, let me thank you profusely for your services. you've saved my ass many a time.

I send congratulations for your help in solaris.

My thanks for the great effort you made in this site.

First thank you for maintaining such a great site for us Solaris users!

I think being able to grab the binaries from your site is wonderful and thank you for your help.

First of all, I'm a long time user and love your site!

first, a big THANK YOU for all the work done there at sunfreeware.com. This software repository makes my work on Solaris more GNUish and so more happy.

Firstly, thank you for running SunFreeware.com -- it's a fabulous resource.

keep up the good work

sunfreeware is one of the most useful sites I have ever seen.

Thanks for the help!!!

Your work and contribution is highly appreciated.

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the swift response.

Hi! I'm a big fan of the Sunfreeware site and use its packages often.

I appreciate the work you've done on the sunfreeware.com site. It is well done, please do keep it up.

I am setting up a new Sun workstation, and found your pre-built packages quite valuable to install software such as Python, gcc, gdb.

I like that the packages install in /usr/local, since we tend to only put commercial software in /opt.

I appreciate your efforts! Please tell me more about what CD's you sell, since this might be the best way for my company to support your efforts.

Congrats on the freeware site, the most useful UNIX site on the internet.

I read and appreciated your page: www.sunfreeware.com/download.html It was quite clear, with more information that I've seen in a half-dozen similar pages!

thank you very much for your service, your site is indispensable to me, it's really saved me -so- much time and effort. i would gladly pay a small fee to access it. or at least make my company pay it. ;

Thanks for the SUN Freeware site(s). They have been invaluable.

Steve thanks for your help. your site is great.

Let me start by saying how cool a site with precompiled software for Solaris is. I dont see stuff like that for other systems anyware. (Well, not one I would trust.)

Subject: dood... you rule...

your site has been EXTREMELY helpful... I've been unable to find some of the applications in all my searching... and here's comes along your site... that has EVERYTHING i've been looking for all in one nice place!

Subject: thanks!

Thanks a bunch for sunfreeware.

www.sunfreeware.com is a really terrific site and an invaluable resource to me. I have recommended your site to many of my Admin friends and co-workers and appreciate the time and effort that you have put into it.

Thanks for the web site.

Thanks a lot, now it works.

thanks for the sunfreeware site is really great!

We're happy campers now!! Continued success with your site.

Hi there, first I would like to thank you. For years you have been my favorite resource for solaris packages and have saved my ass more often than I can count.

thanks for your help.

wonderful site

Thanks for your page http://sunsite.ccu.edu.tw/freeware/pkgadd.html - I've been looking all over the show for help on the post installation script :-)

Oh thanks that was a very quick reply IN THE WORLD and IN MY LIFE... Thank You Friend...

Subject: it worked !!! - Thank You

Thank You
thank you

thanks man !!!!
iT workeD.

Thanks too for providing us compiled versions of all those freeware all over the net.

Subject: Many thanks

Love the sunfreeware site.

You've made my life a whole bunch easier and my users now think I'm some sort of Unix god (they'll discover the truth soon enough). They now have lots of new utilities to play with to make their lives easier, and I can get on with my real job......

Nice one sir. It's great to have a place to get all this cool software.

Hello Steve. I have to thank you for all the work that you've done in compiling, not to mention centralizing, all these tools and utilities. Kudos.

Once again thank you for your fantastic site.

Thank you very much!!!

I want to congratulate you for your great job.

I want to thank you for www.sunfreeware.com; it's great.

Thanks for all the effort you have put into the Sun Freeware site - it is really appreciated.

congratulations to you for your wonderful site!

Thanks Steven!!!

Having used this site for a while, through a few distros of Solaris, I just wanted to let you know that "WOW your site kicks-ass!" There are virtually no other places to get compiled source, and while sometimes I feel like compiling, many other times I do not or cannot. What a incredibly useful service you provide, had I any money, I'd probably want to give you some... Here's hoping for success, eh?

Thanks, at any rate.

Let me begin by "sucking up" and saying that we really appreciate the service you provide to us (and the community).

You really save us lots of time (and headaches) by providing compiled pakgadds.

thanks for the wonderful resource you've brought into the world.

Thanks Steve, appreciate the assistance!

I must say I'm impressed by your site.

I really find your site useful.

That's it! Thanks for your help!

Keep up the great work with these packages. You are truly appreciated.

Great site!!!!

Great site, BTW!

Thanks. You have been doing great, great work.

sweetest and coolest site i have ever seen/used. thanks very much.

Thanks for your efforts.

Thank you for maintaining all this.

Great job on the SunFreeware site! I've always appreciated that I could get just about anything I ever needed for my Suns there!

First of all, I wanted you to know that I have always found sunfreeware.com extremely helpful, and I use it frequently.

Thanx a lot for everything. You've saved a bunch of us from turning blue. :-)

Congratulations!! Your site is very cool!!

Thank you for your help!

Hi Steve, just want to say thanks for doing a great job on the www.sunfreeware.com site. We at Eastman Kodak use sunfreeware as a defacto standard for Solaris addon software. The site has grown to be the best repository for Solaris tools anywhere.

Thanks for your very nice SunFreeware-Page, its great and very useful.

well done on a very useful site - keep up the good work.

Thanks! That worked!

best wishes and thanks for this great site

Thank u very, very much!!!

Subject: THANK YOU!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for this fantastic website.

It has made my job much easier.

Thanks again and Keep Up the Good Work!

Thank you for the nice site.

Works perfectly. Thank you very much for maintaining such a useful site.

Hi and thanks for the great sunfreeware.com site. It has been a great timesaver.

I believe the sunfreeware aite is awesome.

Thanks for all your work on your website. It's been a valuable resource for us.

The SunFreeware site is extremely valuable. Having consistent package names and wide availability is very helpful in maintaining and reproducing our build environment.

Thanks for running such a useful site!

I love your site sunfreeware.com. It has made my life as a system administrator ten times easier on many occasions. Please keep up the great work.

The site is awesome, and I've included reference to it in client reports.

Thanks for sunfreeware.com - great site!

I love your site - makes life a lot easier sometimes...

We greatly appreciate your efforts a the SunFreeware.com site. These are the only builds that we trust!

You have helped increase our time to problem resolution and decrease our operational costs....which are serious issues in the academic sector.

Thanks for sunfreeware.com - great site!

Let me start by thanking you, your site is amazing, I actually hope I can contribute to the *nix community in a simaler manner someday.

Thanks for the site it's people like you that make the unix world great, I will send some cash, you certainly deserve it ;-)

Great site BTW :) A lifesaver.

Thanks! (We love your site, btw)

Thank a lot.

thanks Steve, it works now ...

Thanks for supporting this site, it helps me out every day!

You don't know me, but thanks for your help on the Solaris /var question. I didn't allocate enough space from my initial installation and didn't know what to do when adding gcc the precompiled version. Someone on bigadmin.com made the statement that I had run out of space on /var but didn't tell me how to fix it. You have a nice workaround and I learned that I need to be more careful when allocating space on partitions.

I'd like to say 'Thanks' for your site. Solaris is a tuff thing to learn and your site will definitely take some of the frustration out of trying to learn it.

Thought I'd take some time to thank you for maintaining Sunfreeware.com. The packages have saved us immeasurable hours, in addition to allowing us to maintain a consistent environment. Since packages can be tracked, manually compiled and installed software cannot, life is much easier!

There are only three places on the net that every SA need know... sunsolve.sun.com, comp.unix.solaris and www.sunfreeware.com (not necessarily in that order).

Thanks again!

Thanks for having those files available. Your work is appreciated more than you will ever know.

I love this site and visit it often. It has sped my project research and development immensely.

first of all a big word THANKS for the incredible work you're doing.

By the way, it would be almost impossible to maintain the Sun servers we support without your site!!!

First, thanks a lot for sunfreeware.com; it's saving me a LOT of hassle!

I recently sent in a request for this app compiled. I am not sure if you did this based on my request, or just because the time was right, but either way I wanted to express my gratitude.

Since I am working with Solaris (again) I use your site very much. I am very thankful not to have to compile stuff for testing and to have access to a good structured archive for sun-software.

Thanks for your work. It's a great site!

Thank you!!

Thanks for all that you do for the Solaris community!

Great site, thanks for making life easier for Solaris Newbies like me :-)

I just wanted to say thanks for this site. Being new to Solaris, but a Linux user for several years, I have had a difficult time making the transition and wanted to let you know how helpful www.sunfreeware.com has been to me.

Thanks again!

i use packaged gnu software for solaris very often - because i am no c programmer and i want to USE software ... not playing around for hours getting the configure/makefiles/libs/includes up and running.

thanks for the page !

Steve, thank you! I really appreciate the web pointers, you are a stellar gentleman and scholar! I hope Sun gives you some decent support for this community service work you do.

Great site! I recently acquired an old SS5 to play with (xmas present), and have been getting it going with Solaris 7. I'm new to Sun, old to Unix (older to other OS' - RSX-11, or as a kid assembly on a 7090). Anyway, I found your site, and it is great! Saved me hours and hours of configure/make/make install...

And, did I mention that your site rocks?

Thanks for doing it. Must be a heck of a lot of work.

Thank you very much.

Thanks. It's really works, thanks a lot.

First I would like to thank you for creating and maintaining sunfreeware.com, and to that effect I would like to congratulate myself for finding it! I'm just now getting into Solaris, purchased a Blade 100 workstation, and searching for software that i've been running on linux for so long, has been painful to say the least. And here it is, all in one place constantly being updated. Great work.

Again, thanks for the great site. It's very useful.

thanks a lot for your wonderful site, it sure helps a lot when installing a solaris box.

First, thank you for your wonderful site (sunfreeware.com), it makes being a sysadmin 100 times easier.

PS: you have an indespensible site. Thank you for saving me tons of time and being a great place to browse as well (though usually I know what I want and you usually have it...).

Great work what you are doing here!!!

Thanks for sunfreeware!

Subject: Just a thank you for maintaining this archive
It changed my day from a waste to something better.

I love www.sunfreeware.com!

its really great site.

PS: Wonderful site btw, made my life much easier, thank you very much !

Thanks for your great job ! It provides me really quick help on many projects ! The best of the best is to be able to get gcc packages.

Thanks for providing a useful site.

I have been using this archive for years and it is the best.

Thank you very much for your help. I am amazed that with as many users you must have that you were able to find time to help me. Thanks again!

Great site!

A million thanks.

I've been to your website and it's really help me a lot with my work. Appreciate your kindness for posting such a website.

Great site! It makes our job of installing required tools much faster!

Thank you so much.

Once again, thanks for providing a great service. It's rare to find such powerful functionality so easily - I think you've made some sort of usability breakthru.

I like to say thanks for sunfreeware.com. It's such a useful tool. I would like to know what I would need to set up a pkg-get server.

I like to say thanks for sunfreeware.com. It's such a useful tool.

Just a quick note to let you know how much I love sunfreeware.com. I administer serveral small solaris networks from 2.6 to 8 and both SPARC and Intel. Your site makes it so quick and easy to add new software, I wouldn't know what to do without it. Your documentation eg. SSH instructions are also the ones I use (even on linux!) Keep up the outstanding work.

I've frequently visited your web-site. First, thanks for your effort to generate software packages. Actually, it helps a very junior administrator like me to solve many problems with compiling packages.

I would just like to say thank you for the great site, it has been very useful.

I'd like to thank you for the sunfreeware.com site. It is always the first place I visit whenever I need a piece of software for a Solaris machine. It has definitely saved me hours of work over the years.

Your site is amazingly helpful! You'd never know the time you save us!

I really enjoy your site and I greatly appreciate you in taking your time to compile all the programs for us lazy folks.

i just wanted to tell you that i REALLY REALLY like your page www.sunfreeware.com. it helped me A LOT when i tried to install software on my u10.

thanks to you for getting sunfreeware running.

Subject: Thanks, thanks, thanks

I've been using software from sunfreeware.com for years now, and seeing as how you just saved me from certain death and/or mutilation today for the umpteenth time, I thought it would well behoove me to say, with heartfelt sincerity, that you rock.

Thanks. You rock!

some package or other when I (didn't want to, didn't have time, or was unable :) to compile it myself. It's a tremendous service that I never really need to bookmark because it's the site I think of first.

Thank you for your site, it's a wonderful resource!

I love your site.

I have found your sun freeware site and the companion CD a great plus for myself as an administrator and for my users. (It's great to suddenly have access to heaps of apps & applets via KDE & GNOME).

Really love your site and the service you provide. Again, thanks for such a great site. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for your great work.

I love your site by the way!

I want to thank you for a great web-site !!! It is THE reference site for Solaris freeware.

I am new to solaris operating systems. This site has proved invaluable for me and my company's operating environment as we are introducing some sun equipment to our operation. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for all your efforts, and the great site!

You have just saved my ... again with the new OpenSSH installation instructions... Thanks Heaps..

First of all- love the site. It is a godsend sometimes. Thanks for the great site.

Thanks a lot for your site -- it's been a great help.

This is a highly complimentary email in recongition of the fact that the sunfreeware.com site has saved me much angst. I hate compiling stuff. It usually never works first off and I'm not the kind of person that enjoys going through configuration files and documentation with a fine tooth comb trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

So thank you very much.

I appreciate your site and will let others know about it.

First, thanks for your sunfreeware archive. We have been using it quite extensively and it saves us a lot of time.

You have done a great job in getting SUN to distribute some of all of your packages for SOLARIS.

This offort of you realy helps running Solaris smoothly.

You are doing a great job with the Sun freeware website and I know you are recieving lots of compliments for users looking for Sun packages.

Keep up the good works!!!

You've saved me a ton of time! Keep up the good work.

We all love what you're doing on sunfreeware.com. I have just recently started to use it and it has proven to be helpful in many ways. My company is planning on making a donation in the near future, you have already saved us money just for that fact that we didn't have to purchase a compiler.

I greatly appreciate the Sunfreeware site and use it often.

Keep up the great work.

I have long been a fan of sunfreeware, great resources. :)

Thanks for all the great work you are doing. You are making it very easy for us novices as well as all the Sun gurus out here.

thanx for all (packages, information, etc.)

Thank you VERY much for all the fine work you've done on sunfreeware.com. It makes owning and running a Sun box as easy as an Intel box.

I run a freeware website myself and rely on donations. You run a great site and help thousands of people every day - including me sometimes.

I will try to make the office here pay a few bucks.

Thanks (Love the site!)

Many thanks for the wonderful sunfreeware site and project. It's truly an invaluable resource to the community.

Firstly, thanks for the wonderful site; I've been using your packages since I started using Solaris many, many moons ago.

thanks a million.

Thanks for running a great site!

First let me say thanks for a great site!

And I also wanted to thank you for having such an easy to use and helpful website as www.sunfreeware.com. Your site has helped me quite a bit! Thanks.

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Awesome! The day after it's announced, you have it on your site! Don't know how I'd manage without you.

Thanks for the great service you provide on sunfreeware.com. I have been using your packages for over 3 years now.

Thanks for all your work with the great site!

Big thanks again. I love this site of yours! Talk about a fantastic public service.

I would like to thank you on behalf of some friends of mine, for your efforts in making Solaris a better operating system thru the use of pkg-get and your Solaris Freeware website!

Thanks for the fine website. I really like it. It is an important resource.

Thanks for your site sunfreeware that I use to use for a long as a reference, even if in some special case I prefer to compile for personalization purposes. Anyway, it is useful for the prerequites , advices and environement...

This is frist time on the web and first of all I'd like to say thanks for your website because today, I had download useful packages.

In our work in getting a Solaris port of LiveMath Maker, your site was invaluable. The Sun site was more or less worthless to find anything that we needed; your site was the source of all of our development needs. Thanks!

Many thanks for your excellent contributions!

This is the first time that I have went to Sunfreeware. The web site is designed very nicely and easy to use.

As a side note, I wanted to pass on some kudos for your work with Sunfreeware - you have saved my butt a number of times :) ... I am from a primarily Linux background, so being dropped into Solaris when I started here was a shocker. Sunfreeware helped soften the blows :)

Thanks! That worked nicely. Python is alive and well. sunfreeware is a real nice service!

Thank you for all your wonderful work on SunFreeware.COM. It has really been a godsend to have packages available for easy installation.

Subject: You have one heck of a site! Steve,

You probably get emails like this everyday, but I just wanted to take the time to let you know that www.sunfreeware.com is probably one of the most valuable sites I have EVER found on the I-Net. I have used your site for not only downloading Sun binaries but also as a technical resource for the software offered. It is also the first place I send my administrators and developers when they need uncompiled code for any other system we use (even cross compiling for Windows). Your site is more useful than Sun's and should be a resource that is included as a hard coded icon on any desktop ;) . Using your site we have been able to develop standard builds for all of our hardware (Sun and otherwise) for not only our datacenter but our clients as well. My hats off to you! One quick note though, why can't you hold the Sun patch balls as well?

I enjoy browsing your site aquite alot. I am new to solaris..having converted from a linux user!

Thanks a lot for the great work.

Absolutely terrific site.

You are doing a great work by compiling so many good tools for all of us.

Thank you for providing www.sunfreeware.com. I have recently begun administering a Sun machine with Solaris 8 2/02 on it, and the packages you provide has made the transition from Linux and OpenBSD much easier. Thank you.

I want to say you have a great site and I have never had any problems with your apps.

Great site, keep up the good work.

Again, thank you so much for all the packages you have available. www.sunfreeware.com is a great resource and an asset to the Solaris community.

I've long been a fan and beneficiary of your site. Thanks!

Let me first complement you on your most generous website Sunfreeware.com.

I have been using with great satisfaction the sun freeware site.

Keep up the good work...

Thanks so much for having such a wonderful site! You can only (really!) imagine how many times your site has saved us network/system adims in times of crisis...

Your site is great !

I just wanted to send you a note of "thanks" for all the hard work you've put into the Sunfreeware.com site. It truly is an incredible resource for Solaris admins everywhere. You've saved me and many of my friends countless hours in making commonly used packages so readily available.

Your service is great !

I would like to say thanks for this cool software under Solaris :-))

As always, your site rules!

Like many others, I'm sure, first I want to thank you so much for putting this site together. It has made my life a lot easier just to have one place to find these packages.

Thanks for the packages. keep up the good work.

Hey great job on the site it has everything there is.

Thank you for providing www.sunfreeware.com. You've had a major impact on my system administration work. I'm under pressure to setup an Ultra-80 which was really needed six weeks before the parts arrived. Your site has been a godsend.

Thanks for your help and please keep up the good work - your site is a life saver.

Great site, love it love it love it.

thanks for sunfreeware, i've been using it for years and it's simply a great, good thing.

First, thanks for your efforts to keep the site complete and updated. You're doing a great job.

Thanks, you helped me a lot.

Once again your advise has proven correct. Thanks for all for help.

First of all, let me offer my thanks for your site, www.sunfreeware.com. It has been, and continues to be, a very helpful and appreciated resource that a number of people I know using various versions/platforms of SunOS/Solaris greatly appreciate. I don't know how often people let you know how much it is appreciated, but I thought I should let you know.

First I wanted to thank you for all the great work you have done with this site. You have saved me a lot of time and effort in a wide range of projects. You are clearly a VERY useful site on the Net for Solaris packages.

First of all, I like to thank you for putting up a nice web site for us Solaris users.

I'm trying to resurrect a SparcServer 670MP (which will be running Solaris 2.5) and the ability to download pre-compiled packages of the popular utilities looks like it will be a life-saver.

Many thanks for realising that people don't always run the latest and greatest software, on the latest and greatest hardware.

A very big thank you for your efforts supporting the Solaris community.

Great site man, keep it up!

Hi there. I've been using SunFreeware.com to download precompiled GNU software for a Solaris project I'm working on. I must say, things have improved quite a bit since I downloaded gcc for my Solaris box over a decade ago. You have a great service, and it's extremely helpful for those of us who compile and install the GNU utilities upon using a new Solaris machine.

Thanks for existing and being there!

I find your web site SO USEFUL!!!

Thank you for all the time you saved me!!!

First of all, thank you profusely for your site and service. I have saved tons of time over the years downloading your prebuilt packages.

Thanks for making the sunfreeware site available to everyone. I use it all the time.

First, thanks for the site: I use software from here, and I really appreciate not having to chisel my own wheels every time!

Thanks for your fine and very useful site.

Thanks for a great resource.... I use it constantly and it's my first choice for finding sparc software. (please) keep up the good work !

Thanks for the wonderful resource for Solaris users.

You've done a truly fantastic job with the site and it's been tremendously helpful to me. I work at a small startup which has recently had to port it's product (originally developed on linux) to Solaris. The task fell on my shoulders. The availability of your packages has made it very easy to roll out our software in solaris environments quickly and easily without having to worry about recompiling and rebuilding every third party package we used in linux.

Kudos. Keep up the fantastic work.

Thank you very much for your assistance.
Your assistance has resolved the whole problem.

I love this site just because it brings together all the useful packages together in one place.

You do a fantastic job!

Thank you for running that site, it's realy helpful

I'm a Linux sysadmin who has now to work on Solaris servers (ironic uh?). And I found very helpful the site and the project.

Keep up the good work!!

Thanks for your site :-), it's made my life a LOT easier.

Thanks for all the work you do for the Sunfreeware site!

Thank you very much for Sunfreeware.com, it has certainly saved me countless hours of work. It is a great undertaking.

Subject: First time I've read, "How you can help"

How embarrassing! I've been using your site for about 2 years now!

I've downloaded every thing from apache to wget.

You're the #1 Sun software site in my and many others minds.

My old boss turned me onto you, a Sun employee off/on for 8 years.

Thank you

Thank you for the great work you are doing with the Sun freeware site.

Many thanks for making available Solaris native packages of Open Source binaries to the community of Solaris users. I really appreciate that.

I first want to thank you in your vast efforts of packaging so many great utilities. I work for a leading IDC, and consulting company, and am forced to work on every type of Solaris machine you can imagine, and consitantly your packages have bailed us out, as compiling in many customer enviornments is nearly impossible.

Oh, and a big Thank You! for your work, we use your packages extensively on client machines and have had no issues so far ... well with the exception of an OpenSSL upgrade breaking other installed packages, but that's hardly your fault :).

We here think that sunfreeware.com is the Dog's Bollocks!

Great site and it will still be my first port of call when I need new software for my Solaris hosts. (SPARC/Solaris 8)

Great site. Keep up the good work!!

Love this site, quite helpful all the time.

You do a great service for the clueful and less-than-clueful such as myself.

thank you for your efforts in maintaining your site. As an administrator, I find it of great use.

I just visited the http://www.sunfreeware.com/ site, and after reading your note, "Note! To all of you who have emailed me about upgrading OpenSSH and Apache to fix security problems, new versions of openssh, openssl, prngd, apache and related packages are in the works and I hope to have them on this site in the next few days. Thanks for all your suggestions/pleas/demands about this. I understand the importance of these and am working very hard on all levels of Solaris I support - Steve C."

I felt a need to thank you for all your hard work and effort. It is appreciated!

Glad to hear you're on top of it. And again, thank you very much for doing all this work. There are a lot of us out there who greatly appreciate it.

Thank you for all of your work on sunfreeware.com.

Thanks Steve for the package (actually all the packages) that you posted. They have been extremely helpful.

The link to make my own packages is invaluable. While I haven't actually made one yet, the documentation from the link is EXACTLY what I was looking ofr to get me started. As you state up front, I will have to read the man pages (again) before I start.

Thank you for the excellent resource, sunfreeware.com. Your work is always appreciated.

Thanks for your answer!

i am a long time user of sunfreeware.com. i use solaris on sparc and x86 to support a small network that provides free/unlimited unix/shell/web space for friends of mine. very recently, i began building up a new ultra5 to migrate my services to. i decided to go with solaris 9, and quickly found out a lot of stuff wasnt compiled for the new os. over the past week ive been checking sunfreeware almost daily in anticipation of your work building openssh. finally, you published the package. awesome! i downloaded the source to openssh and it looked like it was pretty much bsd only, so it must have taken a good amount of effort to get it working in solaris. after installing it flawlessly, i decided to send you a thank you note! in any case.. thank you very much for continuing to do sunfreeware! i recommend the site to my solaris friends.

Since I've dicovered sunfreeware.com, I don't loose my time into compilation... Thank you for your very good work...

Thanks for a very useful site, by the way.

Thanks for your work on this site! It's been my number one bookmark for 3 or 4 years now. You have made SUN my favorite platform - I also admin HPs, and it is very difficult to find free, up-to-date, useful packages for HPs (at least it seems that way compared to my one-click solution at sunfreeware.com).

Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all the work you've done. sunfreeware.com is an amazing site and it's saved me hours building my workstation at work by being able to just pkgadd everything I need. Thanks for providing such a great resource!

I'm an intermediate Solaris user and love Solaris. I just wanted to let you know that I probably would have got frustrated with Solaris long ago because of d/ling, compiling, d/ling, compiling......... but your packages help alleviate alot of that. Just wanted to say thanks.

Your page (sunfreeware) is top of the webs. Congratulations, is simple the best in freeware.

I've been using your site for about 5 years now, and I have never sent you email before.

Great site! Keep up the good work!

First off, Thanks for creating this site. I am a student sysadmin (almost done with my first year). Your site has helped me many times, when my compilers have let me down.

First of all, thank you greatly for getting openssh 3.4p1 compiled and available for all of us who are can't!!

Thanks for all the great packages that you have compiled for us to use. You have saved me hours of frustration and and heartache not having to try and compile stuff.

Thank you and keep up the great work!!

First I want to say thanks for many years of Sun binaries. I can't count the number of times that the sunfreeware website has helped me expedite a solution.

Your site provides a valuable resource for Sun system administrators.

Thanks!!!

Thanks for your time and your great site.

*THANKS* for providing this great service.

Thanks for your support; I have learned a lot.

By the way, keep up the good work, Sunfreeware.com is one of most helpful sites for my daily job! :)

Your doing a grand job.

Thanks for all your hard work! Great stuff!!!

I appreciate a lot, as do so many Solaris users, the effort you put in having pre-compiled Solaris packages available to the world-wide Solaris community.

I've been using sunfreeware.com for about four years and never have said thanks! Great site. Sure has saved me a lot of time. Really appreciate your efforts here.

Thanks for the fast response and keep up the good work. My job would be unbearable without your site!

Thanks again for the wonderful site.

Keep up the good work.

Subject: You rock!

I would personally like to thank you for your site.

Dear steve

Thank you very much!!!

You are cool man and Have a nice day!

I like your site alot.

sunfreeware.com has been such a benefit to me. At first, I thought that it would only be a painless way to get gcc bootstrapped. But it's so much more than that! Upgrading the included software such as perl is almost too easy now.

P.S. Sunfreeware is GREAT!!!

Thank you for a smashing site!

How are you, I hope well? Thanks for offering this service as it has been a lifesaver on many an occasion since I am not a full blown unix guru, just dangerous. Not to mention I love the fact that it makes life far easier when an upgrade is required....

Love the site! It's an indespensable resource!

Thanks for having a helpful service.

Subject: Thanks -

My 2.6 systems were being used as relays, and hard to block - have compilers for 2.7 but could not fix the 2.6's, and then found your package -

hank you very much for creating the site and maintaining the packages. It has been a great timesaver with deploying machines.

I have thank you for SunFreeware, it's really helped me get a solaris box up and running much quicker than compiling from source would have.

Thanks for sunfreeware - it's a god send.

May I say how grateful I am for your much appreciated efforts in providing ready compiled and packaged applications such as openSSH.

Thanks for the site Steve, brilliant facility which allows me to show off at the site where I'm contracting.

I would like to thank you for providing sunfreeware.com.

Sunfreeware.com is a great gift to the system administration community in particular, and to all Solaris users in general. Innumerable times has sunfreeware.com come to my rescue. Please keep up the good work!

First: Many thanks for your most useful site -- I'm a regular and frequent visitor since starting my new job with a bunch of previously unloved/unmaintained Suns.

Appreciate being able to get the software for all the Sun machines. This is a big help.

Great work on an excellent resource at sunfreeware.com!

Thank you for continuing to provide such an invaluable service for us Solaris users!

First, thanks for all the great tips that your generously published on your Sunfreeware.com website.

my compliments on a great (and helpful) site.

Great thanks for your doing at sunfreeware.com, GREAT SITE! Thanks!

I've been using your site for a while now, and it is extremely handy. Thank you very much for running such a great web-site!

Thx for providing Sunfreeware. I use it all the time.

I would like to thank you for your great work. Your packages make our life a lot easier!

awesome service - thanks!

I want to thank you for the tremendous job you have done with the SunFreeWare project.

keep up the good work, the site is great and a fantastic resource!

love your site.

Thanks for the great work in sunfreeware.

thanks very much, very very .....

great job maintaining such a huge effort!

let me say thank you for posting such a large wealth of software and comments on your site.

Thanks for all of your work on the SunFreeware site. I'm bringing up some new print servers and I keep going back to your site for good stuff. Keep up the good work.

On a separate note, your site is hugely useful. At my last job I admin'd Solaris 2.6 (Sparc) systems and Sun (at least for 2.6) doesn't bundle things that I think are essential (e.g. traceroute.)

SunFreeware is a great service, so thanks to you for keeping it up and running!

Thanks for a wonderful page :) Makes my life A LOT easier.

Thanks for the great site by the way, i have had years of pleasure from it.

Many thanks for the sunfreeware site - it has been most useful to us.

I would like to thank you for the great help you provide with the Solaris freeware server to all those poor admins like me.

Thank you for making available your *MOST* useful site. It has saved me countless hours of compiling, swearing, and sweating through software installs. Your making available the md5 checksums gives one a certain level of confidence that what goes on our systems is what we expect.

sunfreeware.com has been more than helpful to the projects I work on. The precompiled packages have been a lifesaver.

My current project - getting a php interpreter built for an Sun Micro webserver - requires the following programs: autoconf, automake, bison, flex, gcc, gzip, m4, make, perl, and tar. Some of these programs (gzip, m4, make, perl, and tar) are avaiable, but if I had to download and build autoconf, automake, bison, flex, and gcc by hand, this project would probably never happen.

The fact that autoconf, automake, bison, flex, and gcc are available in package form means that I can get php built and installed in an afternoon (instead of a couple of weeks). This is an _enormous_ savings in time for my company and a major saving in heartburn for me.

I can't thank you enough for creating and maintaining this invaluable collection.

Congratulations and many thanks for the great job !

Thanks a lot for the Sunfreeware site; it has saved me hours of work. It has also saved me when I didn't have the expertise to get something to compile.

Anyway, your site is about the best thing I've ever found for getting what I need, when I need it. (And the price ain't bad, either :O)

Keep up the good work.

First off I'd like to say thanks for making my job, and therefor my life, a lot easier. I try to keep most of my addons packages from your site simply because they get updated and are easier then making my own (openssl/ssh always need to be update!). Anyway a great service and super big thanks for it.

First and foremost, I want to thank you for the invaluable resource sunfreeware.com.

Love your site!

Thank you for the site, it is great!!!

As always.. Thanks for your fine work with supporting the Solaris community!

First, thank you so much for providing the sunfreeware site. Harried systems admins worldwide thank you for saving us bundles of time. Again, thanks so much for providing a great resource.

Its my preferred destination for most software I ever need.

First of all thanks for the good work with the www.sunfreeware.com site, it's saved me several times !

PS: Without the sunfreeware.com archives I would have been utterly lost on 2.51 - that system came as naked as the unix systems of my youth without all the gnu stuff. Thank you for all the software! You did a great job!

Thanks for a great service!

I hope that I am not the only one who can only begin to express my gratitude for the highly professional, thorough, and incredibly valuable work that you and all of the others on the team have done in creating and maintaining the sunfreeware site (and mirrors).

It has made my life tremendously easier, and I cannot begin to explain the value of having uniform application availability for my Solaris and Linux platforms.

Sadly, like many, I don't have the time to build and customize the packages myself, so it is your team that has made my life that much more pleasant.

Please extend my warmest thanks to all, and I hope that everyone on the team has a great holiday season, and a rich, rewarding, and successful New Year.

Hey, we're big fans of your website over here in the datamines.

Thanks again for your hard work � for making these great packages available. (I had been wearing out my hard drive with the Imake command!!)

Thanks Steve, I appreciate the work you do on sunfreeware.com and use it all the time.

First, congratulations about Sun Freeware Site. It's really cool and helps us a lot!

Thanks lots for providing the sunfreeware service!

I have found your website to be of great use. THANK YOU.

Many thanks for the excellent site. LOADS of useful utilities, etc.

Great site and very useful.

we brought a new Sun although I'm linux guru got a lot problems with setting up a new Sun and all the software there. I read your "Installing OpenSSH Packages for SPARC and Intel/Solaris 8" and the ssh installation went as easy as I never could imagine ;-)) thank you very much for that great site and very helpful information ;-))))

I've been using your sunfreeware.com site for a few years now. It's the first place I go to when I need to pick up freeware on a new install. In some cases it saves me copius amounts of time because I know that it's there and it exists. Thanks for everything that you do for the Solaris community, your effort certainly does NOT go unnoticed.

That did the trick. Thanks!!

I appreciate your quick response!!! And your binaries!!!!!

I have lost count of how many times I have been grateful for a web site like Sunfreeware. Thanks to you and all involved in making this very useful service.

THank you very much for your reply. I understand that you are very busy and really appreciate the work that you put into the site of yours, it has been a tremendous help many, many times to us.

Let me start by saying Thanks for all your Great Work. Thanks for all the programs that you have made available to the solaris community.

Love the Site, it's been a great resource which I truly appreciate.

Thank you for your prompt response, I'm impressed!

Package working fine. Thanks :)

Great!

Everyone involved with this Site does an outstanding job in providing us access to great applications and tools. Many of us over the years have come to depend on Sites like sunfreeware to get us the Solaris tools and apps that are proven to work ... and in both package and source form; and which are desperately needed.

Again, thanks from the of those like me out-there that really appreciate what you folks do for our Market!

Many, many, many thanks

Thank for having such a good web site. This is pure gold.

As usual, I find myself turning to your site to save my butt and make my projects work. Keep up the excellent work.

Steve, how are you? We exchanged some email a couple of years back, glad to see you are still at it, this is a great site. I can't tell you how much it has saved the company in time and money.

Thanks very much for the work you do to keep this site in such good shape.

Great job on the site. Solaris would be useless to me without the ports you have up on sunfreeware...

Thank you for the quality of your site,

first off, we LOVE your site, and use it quite frequently. it saves us valuable time, money, and energy, all commodities in short order during a recession at a dot com.

thanks for the great site you have.

First of all, thanks for all your hard work on SunFreeware.com. It makes my job TONS easier.

First off, let me just compliment you for a well run service, we rely on it (and its mirrors) almost everyday for fast, easy package delivery and installation! Issues are either noted on site or non-existent...

I find this Sunfreeware site very useful (and user-friendly).

Thanks for all you've done. I've been using your bash, samba, and openssh packages for a while now.

Recently, I was tasked with installing Secure shell across our Unix environment. This included several Sun boxes, as well as HP and Linux. Your instructions were clear and straightforward, and allowed me to complete the installation on the Sun boxes with ease. I just wanted to send you a quick thanks!

Hey, Thankyou for a fast and "human" reply :-)

Allow me to begin by thanking you for all that you provide! I am a long-time user and advocate of Solaris.

Thanks for all the great work on sunfreeware.com. I rely on it :).

Thanks for providing this great service to Sun users!

Thanks for all the great packages you are contributing. It makes my life so much easier ;-)

Thanks for the website - very useful.

Thank you for providing an excellent resource.

Your wonderful !!

First of all, thanks for the great site, it is really a blessing for Solaris sysadmins.

Thanks for your work on the sunfreeware.com site.

I really wanted to ask you a question, but I found the comment about sending you email and I figured it was about time to let you know how much this project has helped me out over the years. I've used numerous packages from your site as needed for a long time - now I think there are about 10 that get included in my jumpstart builds of every server. I even started playing around with making my own packages, which is awesome! I've never found instructions as straightforward as the ones on your site. You make my life so much easier!!

keep up the great site.

Thanks for your time and keep up the great work your doing with sunfreeware.

Hi Steve: I am using your site almost everyday. You have done a tremendous work.

Thanks!

BTW, You have my sympathies, that compiling an building and packaging must be a real slave job isn't it ;-) But we, all around the world do really appreciate it.

PS. Sunfreeware is great, we use it alot !

Thanks again for the head start, you really saved my ass !

sunfreeware.com has helped me a lot in setting up our sun machines. I really appreciate your effort & dedication in putting a great stuff like that.

Thanks in adavance and keep up the excellent work at www.sunfreeware.com!

Thanks so much for keeping this site running.

Thanks Steve, I really appreciate it! and I love the site!!

Thanks for replying - I am amazed to get email from you personally- thought you probably have one your minions take care of the small stuff.

I just discovered how useful is your site and the mirrors all over the world. You say right: you spare a lot of time if you find an already compiled module that you just have to install. I will use a lot your site in the future Thanks again.

First let praise you for founding and maintaining the Sunfreeware site. It has become an indispensable resource in our Solaris shop here at the City of Toronto.
Keep up the good work!

OK, let's start off by throwing words like "invaluable" and "godsend" about. The Sunfreeware site is seriously useful to those many of us who don't have the time to build all the useful tools that Open Source has to offer (or the budget for their compilers...) Very many thanks for all the work you must put in on the project.

I am using now your site for a long time, and I found your work very great.

First, thanks for the work you do on Sun Freeware. We find it very helpful.

First let me say thank you for your work in providing solaris newbies like myself support and instructions on simply installing freeware for sun.

I have been using your sunfreeware site for ~7 years (Solaris 2.5.1). It is one of the greatest things on the net. Thanks.

First of all I would like to thank you for your job. I think, sunfreeware is very good help for Solaris users and administrators.

With your help I was able to unpack gcc, this morning. I feel better having done so. Thank you for your patience and willingness to help.

First of all, thanks much for your efforts. We use many of your packages here, on Solaris v2.6 through v8.

Thanks very mch for your help. Much appreciated.

Thanks for a grate site www.sunfreeware.com . I have use it off and on for about 2 yrs now.

Steve, your work and efforts regarding sunfreeware.com are very appreciated by many.

I want to express my gratitude for maintaining a site like Sunfreeware.com.

Thanks for maintaining such a great site: sunfreeware.com !

Thank you for a wonderful service - your tools and application "builds" make Solaris tremendously better for everyone.

BTW, I've used other packages from sunfreeware and it's been a great help. Thanks for all your efforts.

Let me thank you for packaging all the software for Solaris.

This site has been extremely helpful. Thank you!

Great site - makes life much more easier!

Thank you very much for sunfreeware.com, by the way. It's been invaluable to me.

I found your sunfreeware.com is very helpful. You've done a great job.

Thanks for providing this incredibly valuable resource for the community.

Awesome site........I know tons of people who use this.

Thanks for the great site!

I don't know where I'd be without sunfreeware.com, thanks!

Having learned tons from your site and those in the "community", let me say thanks.

I must say that I like your site and it is great to have easily obtain the precompiled software.

Thanks for all the good work, keep it up!

It's a wonderful site.

Thank you for your work on solaris x86.

Thanks a bunch for the site.. it has helped me on more than one occasion.. =)

I love the sunfreeware.com site and have enjoyed using it.

I love the Freeware for Solaris website! It is fantastic and it makes my life so much easier.

Thanks again for Sun Freeware. It's made my life as a sysadmin much easier.

Thank You, this service is a tremendous resource (especially for those of us without compliers!)

Let me commend you on the excellent job you are doing with sunfreeware.com.

Thank you for your wonderful service.

BTW, you're doing a great job in maintaining this site over and over full of useful free software !

I just want to thank you for SunFW it is awesome, don't know what I would do without it.

Thanks again for the awesome site.

Here is the "highly complimentary email" that you said would help. I recently bought a SPARCstation 20 for home (and have two SPARCstation 5 boxes at work) and found your packages extremely helpful.

I just wanted to say thank you for your efforts in providing a centralized location to download solaris applications. your information on installations and recommendations are very valuable to me. i don't know how you find the time to keep up with all that your website provides.

Thanks again. You're a trooper for all you do with sunfreeware.

First, let me thank you for the excellent service you are providing to the Solaris user community. I am a consultant and have found this site very useful when I work on various projects for my clients.

First of all I must give my best congratulations on your fine website ; the sunfreeware.com is one of the best sites in the 'net for the Solaris/Sparc people in the world!

I want to say "Thanks!" for all of the help your Sun freeware page has been. I've been using it since back before it had its own domain, and it is a wonderful resource!

You made my day...
Thanks for the excellent site, it has saved my be-hind more times than I care to count.

Thanks for a good job with sunfreeware.

thanks for sunfreeware!

Your work is awesome!

You're a bloody legend.

I really like sunfreeware. Keep up the good work.

It was only when the site went down last week, that I truly realised how useful your work has been to me, as a sys admin, and how much I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you very much, for providing a single point where folk like me can grab all the latest stuff, and for giving me ideas/tips in creating my own packages/scripts.

I'm sure there are a lot of us out here in internet land who share the same opinion of you and your site - thanks for making Sun so much easier to use :)

Hope everything goes well with the new servers.

Please forward my thanks to the far-sighted Sun Manager who decided to help sponsor the site - long may they continue !

Thank you for making Solaris builds available. Your site is an invaluable tool to us.

BTW Keep up the good work with SFW!

your efforts at SunFreeWare are much appreciated.

Great website.

fantastic site! =)

sunfreeware.com is a great site. I don't know how you do it.

I just want to say thanks for all the good free s/w and great instructions . particularly http://www.sunfreeware.com/openssh.html. I had a number of problems upgrading to OPENssh and that document spelled out what I needed to do. Saved me a bunch of time and I appreciate it. When I can, I will say thanks with a paypal donation :-)

Great work / great site!!!

first let me tell you that your site has been a G-R-E-A-T help. I maintain a lot of different build servers all with different OS'es and OS versions. I must rely on packages, since I do not have the time, nor the willpower of compiling everything I need on 30 different platforms. On Solaris (2.6, 2.8, 2.9, SPARCs and intel) I totally rely on your site. Having somebody do the heavy lifting once for the whole community deserves gratitude. Thanks!

Regards (and thanks for all the packages and work!),

First off, I love the site - thank you for the very valuable resource.

thanks for providing the service of Sunfreeware - I really appreciate it :-)

many thanks for running this site, has made admining Solaris a lot less hassle.

Been a user of your site for years, first time I've ever had to make a request. Thanks for maintaining and upkeeping one of the best sites on the net.

thanks for maintaining such a great resource for solaris packages!

By the way, you are doing a great job!!!

Thanks for your prompt and conscientious work on sunfreeware. I use the site often enough to consider setting it as my home page.

You sure do provide a great resource.

I love and really appreciate the work you do with sunfreeware.com. Thanks again for all your great work on this site/project!

first of all, thank you for the great work you're doing! Your site is an excellent resource for admins like me, who work with Sun Solaris but depend on third party software like GNU for their tasks. Please continue this great effort, as it makes the jobs of hundreds, if not thousands, of other admins that much easier! Your packages help me out both at home and at work :)

I have to say, I'm surprised you actually answered my first mail.

thanks for your efforts in spreading the cheer.

Thanks for your attention and for the great work on sunfreeware. It's the best.

Let me first congratulate and thank you for the work you're doing. I can not tell you how valuable it is in my day-to-day work ! Great JOB !

I just want to say that you and your site rule ... You have saved me thousands of hours of work ... thank-you.

Thank you Steve. Appreciate all the hard work and efforts!

First off ... Thanks guys a lot for maintaining this site - much appreciated!

been using the files you serve for several years. frankly your efforts really help me in my works

You have a great site. Thanks for all the hard work that you do.

Thanks for providing such a useful service.

Thank you for the service provided...

Let me first congratulate and thank you for the work you're doing. I can not tell you how valuable it is in my day-to-day work ! Great JOB !

And, BTW, thank you for your work in the past. At our company, we've used lot of packages from your site!!

I spent a year working at Sun as an intern and have had to get myself an Ultra 10 for my home work too. I found it a bit difficult moving from ready-configured environments to configuring my own, but your site has made it *much* easier :)

Thanks for all your hard work :)

First I want to say thank you very much for the hard work you have done on the site. I am mostly a linux guy who has run into Solaris systems periodically for the last 10 years. I have recently discovered your wonderfull collection of software and I don't see how I did without it for so long. Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication.

Thanks for the great work you've done on this website.

First, let me thank you for providing this fantastic service for overworked sysadmins like myself. You are personally responsible for saving my neck on numerous occasions. =)

I work in an environment that requires me to use a "trusted source" when downloading software from the Internet. I am also required to use an MD5 sum to insure the integrity of the file I have downloaded... all good policy no doubt. Since your site is sponsored by Sun and uses MD5 sums, we have been able to successfully make the case that your site qualifies as a trusted source and have been able to use downloads from your site in the past.

Steve, first let me thank you for providing the sunfreeware service. It has helped me out big time in the past few years.

Thanks for the great www.sunfreeware.com site. It really helps getting going quickly.

I must tell you how much your work is appreciated by the community! If you have a boss and want some feedback. You are doing great.

thanks... sunfreeware is too cool! thanks for making Solaris easier to use. Being able to quickly pkgadd everything truly helps!!

Thanks for hosting and feeding sunfreeware.com I have download many products and I appreciate your hard work.

First off, great site! I have been using it for years with much success.

First, a 'thank you' for maintaining sunfreeware! It sure is very helpful.

Allow me to thank you profusely for your work! I cannot begin to compute the time and suffering your work has saved me over the years, and for that I am truly grateful to you. God bless you, all your ancestors, and your prodgeny!

First, I would like to thank you and your sponsors for providing such a valuable source for users like me to get rolling with open source development on the Solaris environment.

Very gratious thanks for your work.

Thanks in advance for your time and thank you for all your efforts with sunfreeware. I don't know where I'd be without this fantastic resource.

Many thanks for maintaining SunFreeware.com. It has saved me lot of hours.

Not in a position to get the biz to send you $ but wanted you to know that as a sys admin I find your site (and the mirrors) priceless in their ability to help me get on with my job (and maybe give me time to pursue life outside of the workplace as well).

Thanks much for your tremendous efforts and the service you provide.

I wanted to give you a big THANK YOU for maintaining this site. It's a fabulous resource.

Thanks for a great site!

First off, many, many thnx for your Solaris packages. I've been using them for years, and they have made my job much easier!

many thanks for your effort to provide software packages for Sun solaris 8.

Thanks for sunfreeware.com. I'm too poor to donate anything meaningful but I admire your site. Expect much more when I win the lottery or find out that I am adopted and some rich relative to whose fortune I am heir has just passed on. In the meantime, please accept this highly complimentary email.

I don't trust just anyone to compile software for my servers. The fact that you are trusted by so many open source projects as the sole recommended source for solaris builds of their software has put you on that short list. There are only about 5 people on it and you're the only one I don't personally know. Judging by how swamped you've been lately, I'm not the only one who feels that way. Keep up the good work.

Sunfreeware.com mentioned favorably in news story

Monitoring Network Integrity with NMAP

I am still quite a newbie at administration, and my resources/experience in compiling is extremely limited. I have become *very* dependent on SunFreeware packages.

Thanks for your patient reply to a terse email, the response was very much appreciated. Thanks again.

I have been using your very useful sunfreeware.com site for over four years. I would like to thank you very much for all the excellent work that you have done. So I hope this small token of appreciation is accepted by you, even though it is four years overdue!

first of all, congratulations for your work!

First, thank you VERY, VERY much for al the work you put into Sunfreeware.com. It makes my life a whole lot easier to grab the precompiled versions. It also allows me to try out software without spending a long time to get them to run just to find out that it doesn't quite do what I need it to do.

First, thank you for sunfreeware, it's a great service. I can't tell you how much time it saves me.

Thank you very much for your great work,

I am a new Ultra 30 owner with a background in the BSD's and Linux. I want to thank you for providing your software archive. I was absolutely lost without OpenSSH and wget, but using your archive and the pkgadd program I'm all set!

First of all, I want to give you my thanks in regards to sunfreeware.com, it is a very useful resource!

I just wanted to say the Freeware site is the best. (Just outstanding)... Just moved to the admin/scientist position and with just plain vanilla sun systems moved quickly forward....with compilers, utilities. I have been to numerous sun admin classes, but the web you have is just fantastic. Thanks for the hard work.....

Keep up the great work.............. you have saved me from a lot of sleepless nights...........hunched over the terminal..................lol

sunfreeware.com is great!

thanks for making my life sooooooooooooooooo much easier *gg*

I also want to tell you that your sunfreeware.com has been invaluable for me for the last few years. Thanks a lot.

I have depended heavily on your site for a number of years. Thank you very much for a job very well done!

As a budding sys admin I've found your packages and site invaluable!

Thanks, Steve, you rule!

Thanks for the invaluable assistance to we Unix newbies! :-)

Your site is such a valuable tool and I appreciate what you do.

yo steve, Nice job with sunfreeware.com! very useful

Thanks for a great Website !!

Sunfreeware.com is mentioned in two on-line news stories -

Monitoring Network Integrity with Nmap

GNU GCC versus Sun's Compiler in the SPARC Platform

Firstly thanks for the sunfreeware site. I have found it invaluable in my day to day work.

First off, thanks a lot for adding NEdit 5.4 to your excellent site! Speaking for the Unix newbies of the world, this is excellent news! :-)

First of all, thanks for all of the utilities that are available on sunfreeware.com. They have helped me a lot.

Thanks a million for all of the effort you put into maintaining the archive.

Great site... one of the best.

Again, thanks for your hard work.

First of all, congratulations for all the work on providing standard GNU packages for Solaris.

sunfreeware - been using it for years & it's about time I sent you some feedback. It's an outstanding resource & thank you!!

Thank you for the excellent packages you provide.

Thanks for a great archive.

I have been a big fan of your site for many years and use if as my primary source for Solaris software, you are doing a great job. Thanks for your hard work maintaining a great Solaris resource.

thanks for sunfreeware

I want to thank you for having a GREAT site that helps me and countless others beyond imagining.

I recently visited the Sunfreeware.com web site for some SPARC Solaris 8 software (a GREAT site!).

Thanks for your great site btw !!

wow, i wasn't really expecting a reply, i figure the amount of spam your address gets you would never see it, let alone reply in a few hours. Hi there! your work has been invaluable to me!

Thanks for your great site.

Thanks to you for the support you're giving :)

Thanks for your work on the freeware site, I appreciate it.

Thank you for a great Sun resource.

Thanks for providing Sunfreeware, I've used it extensively in a number of places that I've worked or been a consultant and it has saved me a lot of time compiling things myself over the years.

Thanks for providing a great service to us Solaris users out there!

Can you talk to Steve ... ? He runs the incredibly valuable site www.sunfreeware.com and anything we can offer will not begin to repay what that site offers us.

Thanks!!!!!

First I just want to say what a life saver your site has been. About two years ago I was thrown into doing Sun support for my department on machines that had very non standard loads. Needless to say nothing would compile on them (we even hired an outside contractor to try to install software on them). They only way I even managed to get by were the packages on your site.

After a year I started rebuilding the Solaris machines and setting them up in a more "sane" manner. I'm no longer dependent on packages but I greatly appreciate your help.

On another note I just want to say your notes on compiling gcc are excellent and have saved me so much time. With how long it takes to configure and install from source knowing the switches first instead of trial and error are priceless. The only addition difference that I had to do to get the compile to work on 5 machines was to use gmake instead of make. The only difference in the machines that required gmake instead of make is that they have Forte installed for use.

Thank you very much!

Thank you for making available the compiled versions of various software on sunfreeware - it comes in very handy.

I first wanted to congratulate you on all the packages which do exist. I have both loaded your packages from here and compiled code from 3rd party sites, and believe me when I say the pkgadd routine is ALWAYS much faster and cleaner.

My thanks, as a long-time installer of your efforts,

Thanks...and thanks for providing such an invaluable resource for Solaris admins.

Again, thanks are due for your sharing your work with the wider world.

Thank you very much. I've used the site for years -- it's good stuff. It's really helped me keep my Sun boxes going.

Excellent...

BTW, I wouldn't want to face the world without sunfreeware.com!

Great work with this site! Thanks and keep up the good work!

Thanks for all your work.

My thanks and appreciation for the great job you do on behalf of Solaris users.

Thanks again for your help in this and for providing such an important resource to the Solaris admin community.

I have found your site invaluable over the years. Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to make my work easier.

Thanx for the very good work.

Got it to work :) Thanks for your help (on sunfreeware.com)!

I'd like to really THANK YOU very much for the great contribution the site SunFreeware represents for a wide community of Solaris administrators, developers and users.

Keep up the good work ! Great resources.

Thanks for a great resource in http://sunfreeware.com/.

Subject: RE: Bind-9.2.3 for Solaris 8?
Thanks Steven, seems to work great.

Thanks for a great site and keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot for the good job !

Thanks for providing the website, it is an awesome resource.

Congratulations and a big thank you for the excellent work you are doing! Keep up with the great work!

Thanks for your wonderful site, sunfreeware.com . It has proved very valuable to me over the years!

Thanks for providing such a great service. I try to use your packages to keep all my Sun machines up-to-date. I certainly could build and install myself, but your work has made my job much easier.

First off, man, you rock. Your packages make administrating Solaris so much easier.

Thanks for your site! It's great!

Thanks and congratulations for the nice web site.

You did a wonderful job. Hope Sun pays you some bucks :-)

Once again - thanks for your great site and prompt reply.

Thanks for the great site!!!

I've been a happy customer of sunfreeware for three years now. Thank you very much for your valuable work!

I'm busy trying to resurrect a SPARCclassic running Solaris 2.5 as an internet terminal for "fly by" use in our student TV station. I've so far managed to get Netscape 4.79 and ssh running thanks to your extremely useful site - thanks!

LOL! Such a simple explanation; didn't even think of that. Thanks much Steve.

I really appreciate the work you do on Sun Freeware; saves me a ton of work.

Thank you for all the great packages. Without them I would have not been able to get my Ultra 60 changed from a server to a desktop in less than a day. (The mobo on my primary desktop failed...)

Hi! Love your site, always very helpful info and files.

P.S. Thank you for the awesome site!

Thanks for your help!

Thank you for your time. You site is a life saver.

BTW! You are still doing a fine job with www.sunfreeware.com! They worked great. Thank you very much.

Thanks for making so many packages for Solaris available at sunfreeware.com.

Thanx so very much for your contribution to this fine resource.

Thank you for your site!

Thank you for replying to my emails.....
it really means a lot to me......
and thanks for this information that you supplied me in your last email.....
Maybe when I get up to speed on the machine, I can view the lists of information you have at the freeware site and understand it better......
Thanks most of the time doesn't mean very much to people...
but that is all I can do and say.....
I'll bet that it is difficult to return emails such as mine......
and I didn't mean for it to get out of hand and send/receive so many emails....
You are an okay guy....

Many thanks for putting all of this together!

Thank you very much for all your hard work and I wish you the best.

GREAT web page by the way - for getting latest update for Solaris! (I'm responsible for Solaris 6, 7 and 8 servers... :-)

That was fast!
Thanks a lot!!

I can hardly imagine my work without your sunfreeware.com site;

Thank you!

Thanks - it worked. It's so nice to have a binary for this - we have restrictions on what commands we can run on our servers so precompiled binaries can save a lot of paperwork.

Thank you for sunfreeware.com. It has it all.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for making this site! It's made my life adminstering a bunch of old Sparc 2 through 20 machines much more bearable.

Thanks for an invaluable repository.

Once again thanks for a great site.

thanks for maintaining sunfreeware !!!

Steven,

It works great. Thanks for the help. I should of asked sooner, would saved me a lot of time.

Thanks again.

Sunfreeware.com has been a very valuable site.

Your site has been a great resource for me for several years.

Thanks for the packages!!

Thank you for a *great* site.

I just wanted to thank you for putting up and maintaining this service. If I weren't incredibly poor, I'd donate some money to your cause.

Thanks for the super turnaround.

Thanks again for all your help.

Steve, thanks ALOT for your builds as it has saved me alot of grief!

thank you for your wonderful site

Great work BTW!

First, thanks for all of the work that you do to make my job easier (and faster!).

thanks for your time steve.

Thanks for your help - worked perfectly!

This is really great news! I will try installing it in the next few days. I believe this must have been hard compiling and linking work (or hell). Thank You So Much!

Hey, that's great!

Oh, thank you very much. Cool. Didn't expect that level of service...

You have no clue how much your sunfreeware site is appreciated! Thank you!

Frist off, kudos for an excellent site! The quantity and quality is outstanding!

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Thanks for the website. It's been a great help.

Thanks for all the sunfreeware!

Thanks for your help and your very useful website.

Wow! What service. Thanks a lot. I'll install it an let you know how it goes.

You have made my life much easier as a Sun UNIX admin. I started working with Solaris last year and am great full for your site.

I've been a fan and user of your SunFreeware.com packages for... well, it seems like several years now.

Thanks very much, man.

I want to tell you what a great site sunfreeware is.

Thanks for the excellent work you do on the SunFreeware.com site.

Let me thank you for your great web site.

I must thank you for making your invaluable work available on www.sunfreeware.com.

Thanks for all the hard work. Really great site that I have used for years.

Thanks for all the great work you do with Sunfreeware.com - I find it an very valuable and useful resource.

Thanks for your help...it works. This is not the first time I encounter this scenario......this time, senior admins were on vacation...now I won't need their help anymore. Thanks a million.

Thanks so much for taking to time to reply with such helpful advice. Hopefully I should be able to get into the lab today to give it another try. I can't wait.

Thanks for such a quick reply! Thanks again, Steve, I appreciate your help and your offer to work on that!

I have been using sunfreeware alot lately, and it is saving me lots of time. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Many thanks!

We have found your site to of great use to us.

Good news! With your help I've got gcc 3.4.1 up and running on Solaris 10. Your suggestions really got me going in the right direction and saved me a lot of wasted effort.

It is my first time that I have downloaded free software for SUN and I found your site that it is good but your presentation about your career is the best. Thanks for your comments in your presentation; they encourage me to make an extra effort in my job.

Keep up the good work!

Awesome. That got me through that part of the install. I'll let you know if I have any other difficulties. And thanks for the personal attention. It's refreshing to see there are still others out there who really care about helping.

Thanks for the excellent site!

Thanks for you efforts and your help.

The whole web page is a great service by the way. :-)

Thank you so much!

I really appreciate the work you do putting these packages out for the Solaris community.

Sunfreeware.com is a great site for Solaris users.

Thank you and God bless you, for you are a patient man.

By the way - GREAT website and service! If it weren't for SunFreeware, there'd be much more scrambling and package research happening here (and less productive work as a result).

let me say thank you for maintaining such a great and useful website. I've appreciated its existence very much.

Thanks!!!!!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks a million Steven!!!!!

I am very encouraged to see the freeware comunity is thriving for Solaris, this is a key factor for us choosing our latest piece of Sun hardware.

Thanks a lot! SubVersion 1.0.5 has done a great job here. I have setup a repository and used it for nearly three months now.

thank you for your great site.

Thanks for your prompt reply. I found libz.a and performed the config and it worked great!

Thanks aplenty!

You do good work. Thanks.

As always your site is invaluable. Thanks.

BTW, thanks for your work on sunfreeware, it's a very useful service.

First the congratulations: your sunfreeware.com is great !

You're a champion - thanks!

The blt 2.4z package works very well. Thanks again for your help.

I think what you are doing is wonderful.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the GREAT work you did!

Thanks for maintaining such a wonderful site! It is invaluable!

In the process of setting up my Ultra10, I of course loaded up on goodies from SunFreeware!

Anyway, keep up the great work! I find Solaris nearly unusable until my first visit to Sunfreeware.

First thanks for the great site! I use it a lot--er, have used it a lot over the last few years.

we are a german Citizens Network and we want to provide as many Details about SUN and other UNIX-Platforms to our Users as possible. Your Archive is therefore a great Resource for SUN Freeware and we would like to give you Credit on our Servers Webpage.

Thanks for your efforts, ye INTERNET GOD of useful packages for Solaris,

I have used your sunfreeware site many times and have always found exactly what I needed!

Keep up the good work.

thank you very much for the quick update. BTW, excellent site.

Your site is extremely useful. Thanks for your service.

Thanks for running such a useful site!

I love your site, it makes my life so much easier...

Being an engineer in secure (read: classified) facilities, and as I have finally convinced my folks that open source trusted sources such as you are A-OK,

great site you have in sunfreeware.com.

Firstly, I would like to thank you for the help you give through your page to us, users of Solaris systems. It is always very useful to be able to find the utilities we need, almost ready to use.

Thank you for providing the Sunfreeware.com site.

I love your site. I have been using it for years now, and you have been a life-saver literally.

I met you at Lisa04 at the Sun vendor booth ( I said in passing that you have a wonderful web site for Solaris stuff). I'm working with Solaris 10 x86 here at the shop right now, and as there is no EA SFW for it and the SFW for Solaris 9/04 is being cranky on Solaris 10 I'm using your packages. Thanks again for making my job a little easier. Just a short word of appreciation about your Sunfreeware site, and congratulations for 10 years provision of the site.

I've been using sunfreeware for about 3 years now, and find it to be a huge resource. Recently I've had cause to download packages on a regular basis for some new installations (such as replacing the default SSH that comes with Solaris).

Keep up the good work with sunfreeware.com!

First of all , I want to thank you for this great site, it saved me a lot of compile time. It is really great.

Thanks as always for your wonderful site. I've used it a lot over the years.

Thanks for all the help, and software, it keeps me MS free. Of course, since my employer discovered he could bring in an Indian for half of what he was paying me (my real estate taxes pay for the education of the Indian's children), I am also job free, so freeware is what i can afford.

Here's my thanks. Here at Southwest Minnesota State University, we decided to introduce students to the open source world of development. As the lab administrator for the computer science lab, I have found sunfreeware.com to be vital to quickly installing the tools that faculty are requesting. I very much appreciate this site and recommend it to all students who are exploring the Solaris OS on their own.

Am looking for gcc 2.8.1 for solaris. Have a bunch of old software written with it and my boss is convinced we need it. Any clues where to look?

(Sunfreeware.com has this in its ftp archives.)

Thanks for the assist. Was able to download and install today.

That worked a charm! Thanks.

http://www.sunfreeware.com is an excellent resource for me. Thank you very much for this excellent contribution to the community.

I am a long time user of SunFreeware.com. This is a great service that you are doing. I love Sunfreeware.com and will continue to use the service.

Thanks. This works great!

Thanks for the build!

thank you very much for helping that fast. It works just fine.

Thanks!!!

First I would like to say Sunfreeware is the best!! I use it all the time for software. It is a great service to the Sun community.

Thanks for your excellent site. It really makes it easier to install software on solaris.

About subversion 1.1.1 -

The install worked great, thanks again! I've verified it with an checkout/commit/update cycle against a fairly large repository.

Thanks for a very useful website.

Your sunfreeware site has helped me immenseley in my 8 years of supporting Sun systems. Thank you very much for all your hard work.

Thanks for the great site.

I have used it a bunch in the past.

congrats on the great job you do with the sunfreeware site. It's a teriffic resource.

Your site is a wonderful contribution to the Sys admin community and I haven't had to compile gcc since I found it, so thank you!

Congrats on one of the best sun related sites ever. It's an enormous convenience to have so many sparc/2.6 packages ready at my fingertips. My old hyundai sparc clone has a purpose in life once more.

Thanks a lot for all your help. It works great!

Great work on sunfreeware.com. You're an asset to the community. I'll donate just as soon as I have any revenue to speak of.

Thanks Steve!

Many many thanks for the effort to put together the packages we admin need it to build server. I think you should partner with SUN as all of Solaris/Sun Administrator used your site and you should get some thing in return...

Thanks!! I really appreciate your site.

Just wanted to drop a note to you thanking you for the www.sunfreeware.com info and packages. I am a Solaris newbie. I am working on a server that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and I wanted to see if I could get it to run on Solaris (10/i386). Without your help, it would have been impossible for me to get the server working without a great deal of time and effort. Once I had S-10 running, it took a couple of hours and several of your packages to get the server up and running--it works.

I'd like to thank you for the exhaustive list of software. It is an amazing resource.

great work on sunfreeware.com, steve! thanks for the GREAT work, and please keep it up!

Fantastic site!! Your easy-to-use package collection has consistently saved me time and frustration. The recent upgrade to the web interface (where the operating systems get out of the way after selection) is a wise and convenient change. Thank you for running such a great site.

Thanks again for the invaluable assistance to we Unix newbies... :-)

Your package works great. Thanks for your fast response.

thanks for the having sunfreeware.com, it's great.

Just FYI, I downloaded and installed some packages from your sunfreeware site (great work - thanks!).

Thanks for a great site over the years.

Thank you very much for your time and effort devoted to the sunfreeware.com site, it's deeply appreciated.

This is the first time I've written regarding sunfreeware.com, so let me start by saying "thanks" for what you're providing us Solaris sysadmins.

I'm sure you always feel like I have often said over the years:

"You give customers the sun and the moon .... then they want the stars, too!"

I'm from Argentina, and I would like add a mirror of this fantastic place since there is a big solaris-users community here. Thanks in advance and congratulations for the effort, the site is just great!

Thanks for a great site. I'm currently getting gcc for SPARC Solaris 10 from it.

Thanks for a great resource.

Thank you very much for providing a much needed service. We really appreciate your work and effort.

I'm really grateful, that you provide packages for Solaris!

Thanks for your contributions to sunfreeware.

pgsql v.8.0.1 has been installed & configured from your package without any problems, simple apps migrated from v 7.4 and also works OK.. Thanks for your great job !

Thanks for your assistance!! It's great to be able to ask.

Many thanks!

Steve love your work on sunfreeware.

i use this mail to thank you very very much for your work.

I am SO HAPPY to see se-toolkit back in the util packages!!! I'm an oracle dba who can't live without it - it's one of the main reasons I delay upgrading my servers ;^)...

Thanks again!

GREAT site and thanks so much for all of your work on it!!

Hello, I'm a network engineer in China. I`m intrested in solaris enviroment. Your website is very useful for me.

Thanks for the excellent resource.

Thank you very much for your information & help.

I have enjoyed your site tremendously over the years, and it has always been a big help, particularly before Sun was supplying ssh.

Your documentation on "Creating pkgadd Software Packages under Solaris" is extremely helpful. THANKS for posting it.

Hi Steve, great site.

And keep up the fantastic job on maintaning the sunfreeware site.

Your FAQ is Excellent!

I really appreciate your help!

It is working GREAT!!! You Da MAN!

Your excellent work makes my day so much easier.

Thanks and I do enjoy having sunfreeware.com around.

Keep up the great work.

Thanks for your contributions on the Sunfreeware Site. It is highly commenable.

I've been using packages from your sunfreeware site and server, thanks for setting that up.

Thank for all your work, I really like www.sunfreeware.com.

Thanks a lot for your kindness :)

Thanks for all your great working making these packages available!

Thanks for all your hard work on your great site.... many people @ Sun use it too.

thanks for the pkgs man

Thank you very much. I am very thankful to have a resource like sunfreeware.

! What a life saver your site has been. One stop shopping.

First, let me thank you for this great resource, it really saves a lot a time to have sunfreeware available to us !

Your work is very much appreciated.

Thanks for maintaining such a long running and useful site. It's actually been awhile since I've needed to do anything of this sort on Solaris. It was nice to see your site still there...

Thank you so much for this site. We've been using it extensively to get packages and keep some of our software up-to-date.

Thank you for sunfreeware; without it I could hardly earn my living.

Your efforts have made my life easier, I'm happy to return that in any small part. There's nothing like being able to grab a pre-built, packaged version of some stuff (like gcc) when I'm in a hurry, or when I really don't feel like building it myself....

Thanks for all your efforts.

you are the man! >hr> Thank you for putting together the SunFreeware wonderful site. :-)

Your website is awesome. The instructions you have for configuring ssh on Solaris and for loading the new Samba for Solaris 8 are flawless. Thank you very much for providing this site.

I do appreciate your help. You have clearly defined exactly what I am trying to do. I do appreciate your help.

appreciating much your work ...

thanx for doing a great job sunfreeware.com

Hi Steve,
Just thought I'd drop a quick note to let you know how helpful your site has been. Its significantly contributed to the effort of my becoming a Sun admin, which has allowed for a better life for me and my family.

Thanks for site Sunfreeware, (god bless you).

Thanks for running SunFreeware -- the site really rocks.

Thank you so much for the quick turn around! I have downloaded and installed the module it works great! I really appreciate it!

Thanks again for your work. I totally appreciate it.

you're doing an excellent job Steve!

i appreciate the service which sunfreeware offers, it saves me hours of work..

Great work on sunfreeware!

Thanks for keeping this site up, and maintaining it. Can't tell you how much it's helped me.

May I first of all thank you and complement you for an excellent service that you're providing to the Solaris community.

You have a totally cool site in Sunfreeware, I've been using it for over 5 years now and think it's great.

Sunfreeware has saved my ass soooo many times and saved myself and my counterparts countless numbers of hours. With the amount of support the Solaris community is giving we'll be able to take over the world in no time! Thanks VERY much for having the forward vision to support Solaris in such a fashion. Hopefully I can convince my new employer that it will be a good thing to have yet another mirror on the internet.

Thanks for providing a VERY important service to us all!

Thanks for this great job !

Thanks for your web site for Sun.

You have provided a priceless facility to the Solaris community.

Thanks for all the work you've done over the years.

keep up the good work!

My job of super-magical-get-things-working person would be a lot harder without sunfreeware packages :)

Thank you for your site and your work. I've found it very helpful.

I've been using the sunfreeware site for years and it is indispensible. Thanks.

Thanx for all of your hard work on this site.

First let me say that I use your packages a lot. Kudos to you for a great job.

Thanks for your great work on sunfreeware.

You've provided a very valuable resource. Thanks can't begin to express it. Thanks again for this great resource you're providing to the Internet.

I have been using your site now for about 5 years, and I just wanted to say thank you for sunfreeware.com.

It has made my life as a Sun Systems Admin at work and at home very simple.

I would very much like to say thanks for the section "Creating pkgadd Software Packages under Solaris" this has been very helpful. Again thank you for sharing.

I am a consultant doing some web-infrastructure work for a customer with Sun servers.

I KNOW you just did rsync version 2.6.4 - but there were some serious bugs (including this one ) introduced in that version. One of those bugs is preventing my customer from upgrading, and thus preventing me from completing my work. Version 2.6.5 just came out and fixes many of these bugs. I could compile this myself, but the customer doesn't want to upgrade until the software is released on your site... they are a loyal follower!

Any chance of getting rsync 2.6.5 on the list to be compiled for Solaris 9? [this was done in a few hours - smc]

BTW: I've used your site numerous times over the years (I've worked on Sun since '88!), and I don't think I've ever had a chance to drop a note and thank you for all you've done. I figured you probably don't get to hear it often, so I would like you to know there are plenty of us out here who greatly appreciate your site! Thanks for your continued good work!

Thanks again for writing and congratulations for the initiative. It saved a lot of more hours fighting against the beast 'solaris'.

Your response to my request was simply incredible - better than I could have hoped for! Thanks for all your help!

Keep up the great work!

Thank you for free Solaris software.

Thanks for making sunfreeware possible.

Greetings from Switzerland! First thank you for running sunfreeware.com it's a great site and you make a really great job!

Thanks for all the hard work over the years, it's been a great help.

Sun Freeware is an excellent and invaluable resource.

I've been leverging sunfreeware for ever - been in Charlotte doing Sun stuff for 15 years at various resellers. You Rock.

The Sunfreeware site is one of my favorites!

Let me say that without Sunfreeware I would not be able to stick to my various SPARC/Solaris machines. Sunfreeware is indispensable to me.

Thanks for all Solaris packages you have created.

Wonderful SSH Packages!

I was having trouble getting SSH to compile on some Solaris 8 i386 machines, and decided to try Google for further help. Your site got the first hit, and I was amazed at what I found. Your packages not only worked, but are current versions, so I don't have to worry about security as much when implementing them.

I had to drop you a line and thank you for keeping such a thorough repository of precompiled Solaris resources available. If you're ever in Florida, let me know; I owe you a beer.

Please, for our sake, keep up the good work! :)

Thanks for your work!

Many thanks to all you folks there for maintaining this really useful resource.

Thanks for all your efforts on the great collection of open source programs in the last years.

Thanks for all your hard work and unwavering dedication to the Solaris community. I think your project alone has kept Solaris going on the desktop.

Keep up the great work!

First of all, the www.sunfreeware.com is really appreciated! Good work! =)

OK - Sun packages rule, and your site makes it heaps easier to manage open-source on sun.

Thanks again for a great site and service.

I just wanted to let you know that your site is one of the greatest for the Solaris community. I just love it the way the packages are ready.

First of all thank you so much for the great site, Sunfreeware.com! As an avid Solaris 10 user I realy appriciate it.

First of all. bless you for your service!

First up, thanks for all your work in creating Solaris packages. Sunfreeware is an incredible help!

Thanks for your great job.

First of all, THANKS!, for this great website. It makes my life MUCH easier to be able to download these pre-build packages.

Thanks for all your hard work and community efforts!

Thank you for maintaining your sunfreeware.com project, I use your packages a lot! I started fooling around with SUN Solaris when I became responsable for the administration of our Watchguard Firewall management backend. You helped me secure our Solaris 8 boxes with SSH, really great! Solaris still intrigues me and I started studying for my SCSA.

Thanks for all the great software:-).

Thanks for the quick turnaround! I contacted the vendor before contacting you, and you created a package and made it available to me before the vendor responded (and we pay them for support... sad).

I installed the package and the software works perfectly. You are a valuable resource.

thank you, this site is a great boon.

Thanks so much for running and maintaining the SunFreeware site. It's always been a tremendous help.

Let me to thank you again for your great job.

You have an excellent site. Please keep up the good work!

I've used your site for years, you provide a tremendous service to the community.

Your site makes my life so much easier...

Thank you for the pre-built software. Makes my life a lot easier.

Oh and thanks a million for continously top-rate site!!

I'm new to your site and very impressed!

Thank you for sunfreeware.com. It's a very valuable resource for many people.

Thanks again the great site!

Just to say that I am impressed by your useful site - Thanks

Thanks for helping us package up a specific version of Secure Shell to support auditing. Your site continues to provide an outstanding selection of Solaris freeware for users around the world. Your efforts are greatly appreciated by us and our customers.

For the record, I and my colleagues greatly appreciate your efforts over the years in support of free/open software for Solaris.

Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for the wonderful site sunfreeware.com. I have used it for years and it is simply the best! You can be counted on to always have the latest, and the organization and layout is perfect: simple and good. I know it can be no small task.

Thanks!

Your site is a great place! I am there often.

Love the sunfreeware site.

Thanks again for all your efforts.

Thanks in advance, and let me express my great appreciation for Sun Freeware---you make all kinds of cool things possible!

keep up the good work!

You are fantastic!

I really appreciate your site. Great work!

thanks for the site, I'm using it since years to get already packaged software and it usually works great.

Thanks for a great site, simply the best.

You're my idle!

You are da' man. Thanks for all of your help.

Thanks for doing all this great work on sunfreeware - see this mirror as a kind of 'thank you' ( ok - at work, we gonna use sunfreeware much more now, after we are no longer forced to use openpkg. So a fast mirror next door is also good for us here :-) )

Let me say what an incredible site and service you perform for Solaris admins like me around the world. You have saved me immesurable time and grief on so many projects.

First, let me say that the sunfreeware.com site is great. We've downloaded a few tools and you've done a real nice job keeping things organized.

Thanks for all the great packages. SunFreeware.com rocks!

Happy New Year mate and thanks for the excellent service...

I just finished loading SSHD onto a new Solaris 8 box a few hours ago. Worked like a charm, thanks for the great how-to.

I'd like to congratulate about this project.

Love your site, it's the first place I check whenever I'm looking for Sun software.

I found problem in my Sun box - - but without your help it was impossible.

I want to thank you for making my job a lot easier. We include about 2 dozen of your packages in our builds.

Your site is a tremendous help! Don't know what I'd do without it! Thanks for all the hard work.

Subject: Brilliant site...

I have to admit I really love your website and finding the latest updates of SSH is such a joy (Triggered off by a separate program pkg- get!) among others to be installed across the Sun boxes at work (I'm the system administrator!)

Keep up the good work!

First thanks for your contributions to sunfreeware, it's a great resource.

From a user who requested ImageMagick 6.2.6 for Solaris 8 -

Installed and works like a champ. I so appreciate this. With the staff cuts we've had the past couple of years I would never be able to keep our stuff up to date without this service.

Thanks again.

I first discovered Sunfreeware.com several years ago when setting up a Solaris 8 box. Right now I am working on a pair of Solaris 9 machines and your pre-compiled packages really help. I come from a Linux background so Solaris seems kind of limited and clunky to me... until I install all the GNU utilities off of your site. We also use Apache and a few other daemons that you provide. THANK YOU very much for the time you have put into this incredible resource.

Your packages have been extremely helpful for our environment and I would like to thank you for all the effort that goes into keeping all of these packages up to date.

Thank you very much for your good work.

> The openssh 4.3p2 packages are now on sunfreeware.com. Let me > know if they work for you.

Thank you for your fast response. This package helped me a lot, since our security scanner rated the vulnerability in older ssh versions quite high.

Now I can close a bunch of tickets ;-)

Your Sunfreeware site is a great resource.

Hello, found the site extremely useful, particularly for a poor Linux boy trying to compile on Solaris 9/sparc on v240.

Love sunfreeware--like many others out there, I'd be lost without it

I've been using your web site ever since you created it. It is probably the most useful site I have ever used in my day to day management of sun systems.

If you ever need more support from Sun, you should let them know how useful the users feel it is.

Thanks again from 'one of the users', for all of your work over the years.

First and foremost, thanks a million times over for supporting and maintaining sunfreeware. I can't even imagine where my career would be today without it.

You rock, you rock, you rock...

Dude, you're awesome.

BTW, you rock.

Thanks.

The service you provide is very useful to all us Solaris people out here. thanks a lot.

Thanks for maintaining a great site.

First of all, thanks for all your work on the SunFreeWare site. It's a great resource.

I have been using sunfreeware for my Solaris 10 for weeks now and it has been working perfectly! Thank you for your great service!

Thanks, Steven. Your Apache 2.0.55 is now working with your PHP 5.0.4 on my servers.

I really appreciate all the work you put into sunfreeware.com It is a sine qua non for me!

Thanks also for your reply to my query. Very few people of your fame even return emails.

Thanks for all the work you put into sunfreeware.com -- we use quite a few of the packages here, and it certainly makes the systems easier to track and maintain.

Thanks for this and all the work keeping these packages up to date.

Thanks for the site - it has been a great help to me over the years.

great site, makes things very easy :)

Keep up the good work! You have a great site.

I'd like to add the thousands of thank yous and kudos you've already had. Sunfreeware is without doubt one of the most useful sites I use on a day to day basis for administering hundreds of Solaris servers - you make my job a whole lot easier! So may I take this opportunity to thank you whole-heartedly.

Thanks a million for all you've done and continue to do with sunfreeware!

First of all, great site!!! I've been using it for years, and appreciate all the time and energy you must expend making these binaries. You don't get enough credit for this, so thanks from a long time user.

Thank you very much for all your hard work on the Sunfreeware.com site... it makes things so much easier for everyone, which in turn helps to keep momentum and enthusiasm going for the Solaris operating system.

very very very nice job :)

This site is amazing, I'm using it for about a year, and its very nice :).

Thanks for Sunfreeware - it is brilliant!

Thanks so much for putting up this great site. It's an excellent resource for those of us who need some of the standard GNU tools in a Solaris environment. It's easy to use, it has all the necessary stuff in one central place, all the packages work like a charm - nice work.

I really appreciate all the hardwork you put into it.

First thank you very much for put up this website (www.sunfreeware.com). After i found this site, i use this most time to install my Sun pkgs. Really appreciated your hard work.

Oh, and great work on the site! You've saved thousands (millions?) of man hours. Thanks!

Great work on sunfreeware.com, it's been a real timesaver over the years.

I've been constantly dload and use the packages you provide on sunfreeware. tq for the great jobs!

Your site is great. Keep up the great work.

Sunfreeware is such a GREAT value!!! A big thanX for supporting it so well!!! ,hr> A note to say "THANKS!" for all you do for the SUN community of users across the world. We would not even be a "Blip" on the radar screen without your invaluable work. We sing your praises EVERY DAY !!

Thanks for such a tremendously useful site.

Thanks for a very rapid turn-around - all fixed and working! Don't know what I would do without SunFreeWare...

Let me express my appreciation for putting up this great software portal, it has come to be a very valuable source of compiled packages for us.

Thanks Steven!
(And a much bigger thank you for your site!! It is a godsend)

This site of yours is an absolute dream, many thanks.

As a Solaris user I want to thank you very much for this resource. It saves a lot of time for me!

Thanks again for continuing to run such a useful website. There aren't many websites that I use for more than a year or two because they lose their relevancy, but your site is one I come back to year after year.

thanks for the amazing web page, I use it often and it's an invaluable resource!

Your site has been very useful in the last two to three years and very much appreciated.

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.

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.

Thanks for all the hard work behind SFW!

I'm just writing this (From an Ultra 10 running Solaris 10) just to say thanks for providing the immensely valuable service of sun freeware :-)

And thank you! for your excellent support for the Solaris community.

Thanks for your time (and maintaining the site - it's awesome!)

Thanks for maintaining this great resources for us all.

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.

By the way, I have used your site for years. I think you're doing great service to the Solaris community.

Thank for creating and maintaining this awesome web site.

Keep up the good work!

Awesome awesome site!!

Thank you for running sunfreeware. It has helped me greatly in getting ImageMagick to work on Solaris 8 - which is something IM themselves no longer support.

Keep up the great work!

Your sun freeware web site is wonderful.

Thank you for providing such a valuable resource to the Solaris community!

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.

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.

As a newbie on Solaris, my life has been quite a lot easier since I've discovered your website. It's really a great site.

Thanks for all your work on Sunfreeware. It's an invaluable resource for us Solaris admins.

Yes!!!
Thanks Steve, this will help much.
Your site is a fantastic resource, I appreciate your assistance.

The website is brilliant, and I know quite a few people who would have a lot more work to do if it wasn't online. Thank you.

Your site is a life-saver!

Thanks for the site - I recommend it to everyone!

Oh my! That is some amazing responsiveness for a free service! Thank you for providing a wonderful service!

Thanks for the invaluable site! We have been using it for years (since Sol 2.3!) and it has saved us weeks (maybe months!) of work.

A thousand thank you's

Today, I needed to build a toolset on a Solaris 9 machine (without a C/C++ compiler). I downloaded the modules from sunfreeware.com, and Viola!, I was able to build the toolset.

Thanks!

Thanks for all the hard work keeping up with and making available these great tools.

Let me start by saying thank you for a great site/concept!

Thanks again, sunfreeware rocks!

Thank you so much for the faster than the speed of light service to the community.

The Sunfreeware archive is a great service, and I don't know what I'd do without it!

Thank you so much. Your package for bind-9.3.4 is working fine on our DNS servers.

I appreciate the work you do; I have become dependent upon your site!!

Just another grateful user of Sun freeware. Keep up the good work.

Thanks muchly for updating Python to 2.5 (a while ago - I just noticed!) Along with heaps of other stuff, such as very quick turnaround on a security fix to "sudo" (last year?) A great service to the community. Thanks again for all this - for close on a decade?!

This is by far the greatest admin related site ever created!!

I should thank you again for your tremendous work on SunFreeware. It's really breathing some new life into some old Sun boxes...

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.

I have been using sunfreeware.com for a long time. Thank you so much for this great work, you have made my work a lot more easier with this great site.

Sunfreeware.com is just amazing! IMHO, Sun should publish your site just bellow every BigAdmin links.

Now, whenever I need something for Solaris, first I check here, at Sunfreeware.com.

Packages installed without a hitch and work great! Lots of useful basics here, will save everyone huge amounts of time. Thanks again!!!

I am really very impressed by the amount of software you've made available for Solaris! I've read some of the testimonials and I agree full-fledged with most all of them!

THANK YOU!

wow! Great job.

I can't say enough good things about sunfreeware.com.

I have personally used www.sunfreeware.com for a decade as my exclusive library for SVR4 packaged freeware? maybe longer, I don't remember when you started running this web site!

Thank you very much for your efforts!

See blog entry at

Impressive sunfreeware Response

Another blog entry at

Solaris perl cpan

Kudos on the site, by the way. I have been using/recommending this site on various projects/consulting assignments for over 10 years now and have not been disappointed. It is by far the easiest way to get a project off the ground and running in record time.

Keep up the great work, where would we be without you ??

Thanks for the great site & awesome tools... you've saved me again and again! I've been a sys-admin for 10+ years & sometimes I still don't feel like I know much of anything... but one thing I do know is where to go to get what I need every time!

Steve,

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. Thanks a lot

I just wanted to thank you for creating and maintaining sunfreeware.com. I have found your packages to be consistent, and your methods to be non-presumptuous of how I want my system to operate. Yours has always been a stable and reliable resource with tons of useful information, while others, which will go unmentioned, moved in an unstable and insane direction.

Thank you for a consistently useful and clean resource for the *real* Solaris admin and user.

Hi Dr. Christensen, I just wanted to email you to say thanks for all of your work on sunfreeware.com Having the binary software packages available has made the work I've been doing for the last few months go a lot smoother than if I would have had to compile everything from start to finish. Having access to your site let me get on with the work I wanted to do rather than get bogged down in setup. Thank you very much!

I, once again, logged onto SFW, as I've done SO many times over the years. My hands have been off the Sun keyboards for a few years now but I wanted to thank you for all the times I've downloaded your welcome software over the years.

Thanks again, I do encourage people to use your site as a "one stop shopping" for Solaris/(Oracle ;-) packages.

I appreciate all the work sunfreeware shares with the community!

Thank you for taking the time to address this, It's most appreciated!

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