Software Installation

Installing software on NetBSD turned out to be quite an easy thing to do.
Thanks to a fabolous documentation these guys have. I've started here, and just followed the instructions:

http://netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/getting.html#getting-first

Well, reading never hurts. I really wanted to keep things to a minimum, therefore only installed the stuff I need:

* Apache
* Python
* mod_python
* PostgreSQL
* vim
* figlet

Actually I know, the figlet joke never gets old, but I installed it first thing just to test pkgsrc.

Welcome to NetBSD

Well, no-frills it is. After maybe like 20 minutes of installation I got a brand new system.
No big drama configuring it actually. Configured network, few other rudimentary things. Nothing exciting just yet.

What's that all for?

At this stage of my life I decided to learn something new. Actually I really want to invest some time in learning and do few programming subjects on the way. My current arsenal (programming language wise) is quite poor and outdated, therefore I want to expand it a little.
Not only I want to pick a new language(s) but also decided to move all development to a platform that I never really used before: NetBSD. There's no religion or even a technical reason behind it, just wanted a no-frills UNIX that I haven't played with yet. I have quite a bit of Linux and seldom FreeBSD experience, so I believe I'll survive there too.
The reason for me to write this blog is to document little findings mainly for myself (yeah I know, wiki page would have done a better job) and for those who can find them useful.