[rescue] Solaris 9 released

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Wed May 22 10:54:31 CDT 2002


> One thing a lot of people may not have noticed - the "Free Solaris" program
> was formerly "free" for use on systems with less than 8 CPUs.  That has
> been changed to only allow "free" use on systems with ONE CPU:
>
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>
> IMHO, this change will just result in a lot of people "illegally" running
> Solaris 9 on their systems, as it was before the "Free Solaris" licensing
> program came out.. and it will result in a lot of bad PR for Sun, who
> apparently dont think that people might have SMP systems at home.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Yes, in my case, it will simply intensify my intrest in FreeBSD/Sparc.

George



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