Compiling software was an old sysadmin part of the work that has been completly forgotten due to the binaries linux distribution except for the Solaris sysadmin.

Sun comes with a "workaround" Coolstack, which was at the beginning a package of the most used software compiled and optimized for the Sun niagara processor (in T1000/T2000). Some others solutions are Blastwave, or new Opensolaris Image Packaging System (IPS).

Coolstack is now a suite of software compiled and packaged with a kind of support by Sun, shipped for x86/amd64 and Sparc.

It includes Mysql, Apache, Python, ruby and mod_python... here is how to enable mod_python on a Solaris 10 T2000, yes to do some Django there !

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