Third-party package repositories for Solaris

• OpenCSW — a fork of Blastwave; both use pkgutil
  • pkg-get also works with it
• Blastwave
• SunFreeware
• repositories that support multiple operating systems, Solaris being among them
  • OpenPKG
  • pkgsrc

personal opinions about the merits of each

• @serverfault.com
• @peichaer.org
  • a previous post, that basically concludes "sticking with bare-Solaris is perhaps the least hassle across hundreds of boxes"
• @opencsw.org