I am soon to be ...

[Andrew Walrond]

On Monday 29 Nov 2004 16:09, Ric Thornborough wrote:
> ... an unemployed application programmer after 15 years of continuous work.
> I want to "tech" myself up a bit for a month or two before interviewing. I
> own a very nice Dell desktop at home but it lacks the tools to continue
> doing C/C++ on a Solaris platform. I am thinking of purchasing Sun's
> Solaris 9 for Intel. I would then want to download a GNU compiler for my
> programming efforts. Is the GNU compiler compatible with Solaris for Intel?
> Am I on the right track and doing the right thing?
>

Isn't Solaris 10 a free download for non-commercial use? It has a very narrow 
HW compatibility list IIRC. But in any case, since Solaris is already on your 
CV, just install linux. Then everything works, and is nicely supported on 
this and many other mailing lists :)

Andrew