The Solaris install was pretty painless although quite time consuming. That is to say I was able to clean my fishtank, clean the bathroom, vacuum, read 30 pages of The Road, and practice guitar for 40 minutes while it was installing. That's a good couple hours anyways.

I bought some RAM from the eBay so she now is maxed out at 2 gigs and with the dual 450 (risc) procs I wouldn't say she's fast, but she's surprisingly unslow and very usable. Once you get an app launched (firefox takes a few seconds to launch) the gui is very responsive and she looks quite pretty on my dell 19 inch flat panel monitor. She must have seemed like a total fucking beast back in 98 when she was new.

But, no emacs installed??? WTF??? Admintool is gone??? WTF?? And my PATH only has a couple directories by default??? So it's going to take some time to make it really usable (can't compile nethack until I sort out all the directories where the dev stuff is or I may just symlink cc to gcc for now to see if it works) but I think I may re-install with the custom option and leave some of the bloat out.

No emacs! What the hell are they thinking. Right - I'm off to get nethack compiled - I may post screenshots later.

Ha - the GIMP works pretty well here. Not bad at all!

Nethack is alive!