That's just silly. Having used pkg, pkgutil, pkg-get, apt-get, and ports near daily for awhile ports hands down beats anything on the *solaris platforms. For o

That's just silly. Having used pkg, pkgutil, pkg-get, apt-get, and ports near daily for awhile ports hands down beats anything on the *solaris platforms. For one, you can find the libraries you want and they actually work. Postgres 8.4 on FreeBSD? No problem. With plperl? No problem. OpenSolaris? Well, if you want to run 32bit Postgres on a system with 48GB of RAM sure. No 64bit for you though. And Oracle shutdown the Postgres build farm servers they were hosting. Just because FreeBSD stores it's package information in makefiles and pkg stores it in a catalog doesn't change the end result. Ports are as easy to use (if you bother to read the very simple README), and offer far more robust support and packages than any flavor of Solaris I'm familiar with. There was a time I'd have agreed about Ports, but 30 minutes later I had read the README and realized I was just being lazy. ;-)