Hello,

> I've been running Solaris 9 on my Ultra10 and so far it's been very 
> reliable. I believe you can use pkgsrc on Solaris, I am trying to set it 
> up now and if it works I'll have easy access to most software I need, 
> thanks to BSD developers.

pkgsrc works fine under Solaris 9, I'm using it on a Ultra1 and didn't have any problems worth speaking of. Just cvs checkout pkgsrc, bootstrap, add /usr/pkg to $PATH and that's it.
At least on my machine building is painfully slow, apparently because libtool and friends are huge shell scripts leading to 50% kernel load - they seem to eat more CPU time than the compiler.

have fun
Michael