[rescue] Sun Blade 2500 OS options

[Phil Stracchino]

On 06/12/17 16:38, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I'm guessing that you missed Oracle's versioning announcement earlier in the year.
> 
> The short story is, Oracle is jumping on the same versioning bandwagon that 
> Apple did in 2001 and m$ did with the windows 10 release.
> 
> And what bandwagon is that?  Just in short, enterprise customers drag their feet 
> in regards to updates, many times well beyond the last support date.
> 
> The response, Oracle will not bump the version number any more.  They will 
> forever add new features, bug fixes, security releases, etc to Solaris 11.x.


I was more inquiring about options for getting it, whether there is
currently anything resembling a hobbyist license, etc.

And if not, then recommendations for open-source alternatives...?


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