[geeks] Solaris 10 download questions

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:23:16PM +1100, Scott Howard wrote:
> > I only care as I am running older systems and want to upgrade them. They
> > are both very slow so an upgrade takes most of a day to run on each
> > (one is an Ultra 5, the other is a PPro X86). I'd hate to run the upgrade
> > and then find out that if I had clicked on the right icon, I would have
> > found a later release and have to do it over again.
> 
> If these are test/play machines then put SX 10/04 on them, or just stick
> with Solaris 9. If they are production machines then don't even think of
> putting SX/S10 on them yet - in fact I think doing so is actually in
> breach of the Solaris Express license agreement.

Scott, I think in the USA you can pay $99 for a six-month license that
does allow some sort of "commercial" use.  And I intend to put one or
two machines in "production" because that is the only way to get
Zones.