Solaris 10 Officially released

[Gordon Darling]

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

"Solaris 10 Released
Solaris 10 is now officially a production release. Download it today and
see how Solaris can make a difference for you. If you need a fast,
reliable, and secure OS to run your datacenter, your web farm, and your
business critical systems -- then Solaris 10 is for you. If you are
looking to lower your overall cost of ownership, minimize security risk,
and get more from the hardware assets you have -- then try Solaris 10
today. All you have to do is download Solaris 10 - the cost is FREE."

"Solaris 10 is now an official release. Select which format and which
architecture you'd like from the list on the left. You'll be taken to the
download center where you must register to download Solaris 10 for free.
You'll also be asked how many systems you are planning to upgrade. If
you're not sure, use an estimate for now and you can return later to
correct the totals. Try the official release of Solaris 10 today.

LEGAL NOTICE: To receive your free Solaris 10 license, you must register
all machines upon which you are installing Solaris 10 and receive an
Entitlement Document. Registration is performed in the download process,
and the Entitlement Document is returned to you via email.

YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER
REGISTRATION OR YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE ENTITLEMENT DOCUMENT. IF YOU DO
NOT RECEIVE AN ENTITLEMENT DOCUMENT, YOU ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO EVALUATE
SOLARIS 10 FOR 90 DAYS.

If you install Solaris 10 on additional machines, you must go back to the
Sun Download Center, register those machines, and receive an additional
entitlement document."

Regards
Gordon

 

[Genius Maximus]

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

"Solaris 10 Released

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

 

[Gordon Darling]

[quoted text muted]

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

If you don't know then the answer is no ...............

Solaris is an industrial strength commercial unix environment. Ideal for
running robust servers but not a consumer OS unless you are a tech head
who likes playing with new toys.

That said, it is a very solid OS and will run most Linux apps.

Regards
Gordon

 

[Sparky]

[quoted text muted]

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

If you don't know then the answer is no ...............

Solaris is an industrial strength commercial unix environment. Ideal for
running robust servers but not a consumer OS unless you are a tech head
who likes playing with new toys.

That said, it is a very solid OS and will run most Linux apps.

Regards
Gordon

Gordon's post is pretty spot-on. I'd only like to add three things:

1) that if you're comfortable tossing an OS onto your 'puter, Solaris is
no more difficult to set up than a SUSE disto, for example. ("Tech
head?" I resent that! <grin>).

2) just to re-emphasize "...is an industrial strength...;" if you are
comfortable w/the above, it's a great opportunity to check out one of
the most stable, more advanced OS' out there.

But yea, I guess this *is* more for the gear-heads.

-Sparky

fyi, Hardware Compatability List: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

 

[Sparky]

[quoted text muted]

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

If you don't know then the answer is no ...............

Solaris is an industrial strength commercial unix environment. Ideal for
running robust servers but not a consumer OS unless you are a tech head
who likes playing with new toys.

That said, it is a very solid OS and will run most Linux apps.

Regards
Gordon

Gordon's post is pretty spot-on. I'd only like to add three things:

1) that if you're comfortable tossing an OS onto your 'puter, Solaris is
no more difficult to set up than a SUSE disto, for example. ("Tech
head?" I resent that! <grin>).

2) just to re-emphasize "...is an industrial strength...;" if you are
comfortable w/the above, it's a great opportunity to check out one of
the most stable, more advanced OS' out there.

But yea, I guess this *is* more for the gear-heads.

-Sparky

fyi, Hardware Compatability List: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

 

[Gordon Darling]

"Gordon Darling" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht

[quoted text muted]

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

If you don't know then the answer is no ...............

Solaris is an industrial strength commercial unix environment. Ideal for
running robust servers but not a consumer OS unless you are a tech head
who likes playing with new toys.

That said, it is a very solid OS and will run most Linux apps.

snip

Gordon's post is pretty spot-on. I'd only like to add three things:

1) that if you're comfortable tossing an OS onto your 'puter, Solaris is
no more difficult to set up than a SUSE disto, for example.

Absolutely. Dualboot/Multiboot is not a problem.

("Tech head?" I resent that! <grin>).

Oops. I was looking for a synonym for "geek". But you got the meaning!

2) just to re-emphasize "...is an industrial strength...;" if you are
comfortable w/the above, it's a great opportunity to check out one of
the most stable, more advanced OS' out there.

Definitely an opportunity to learn. My own qualifications are outdated
(Solaris 8) but if you can take the Solaris SysAdmin exams you'll be able
to handle HPUX/AIX/ or any other flavour of Un*x blindfold.

Regards
Gordon

 

[CHarneyCHRIS]

its a operating system

 

[Chaos Master]

This is Gordon Darling for forever:

[quoted text muted]

Is this something to put on my PC? The system requirements are not very
clear to me...

If you don't know then the answer is no ...............

Solaris is an industrial strength commercial unix environment. Ideal for
running robust servers but not a consumer OS unless you are a tech head
who likes playing with new toys.

That said, it is a very solid OS and will run most Linux apps.

Solaris looks like a good OS for a workstation. I could try using it on
my testing box.

Also, this would help me to learn UNIX.
(I have used SGI-IRIX in the past. But that's it.)

[]s
--
Chaos Master®, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W / GMT-
2h / 15m

"He [Babya] is like the Energizer Bunny of hopeless newsgroup
posting....or should that be Energizer bBunny"
- "ceed" on alt.comp.freeware, 24/1/2005

(to some groups: Yes, I use Windows and MS Office. So what?)

 

[elaich]

But yea, I guess this *is* more for the gear-heads.

I notice that you tried to imply that YOU are one, then made the
unforgivable mistake of double posting. Yes, you are smart, yes you are.

 

[Sparky]

I notice that you tried to imply that YOU are one, then made the
unforgivable mistake of double posting. Yes, you are smart, yes you are.

elaich, elaich, elaich;

Cut down on the caffeine, will ya? "...unforgivable mistake..?"

b'waHA HA HA HA!

-Sparky

 

[Steven Burn]

| > I notice that you tried to imply that YOU are one, then made the
| > unforgivable mistake of double posting. Yes, you are smart, yes you are.
|
| elaich, elaich, elaich;
|
| Cut down on the caffeine, will ya? "...unforgivable mistake..?"
|
| b'waHA HA HA HA!

<vbg>

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Dewey Edwards]

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

"Solaris 10 Released

Before anyone jumps on the bandwagon, you might want to read
GrokLaw.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050202140308780

"In case you were holding your breath, you can let it out now. Sun
has declared itself. It doesn't care about the GPL segment of the
FOSS community, the patents are only for signed-up licensees of the
CDDL, and what's the beef?

I asked Dan Ravicher of PubPat.org if he had any reaction to share
with you, and he said this:

'My advice is that developers should ask themselves if they really
want to work on software distributed by a company that has expressly
retained the right to sue them for patent infringement if they don't
give their improvements back to the company.'

Go here [http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/nc05q1.html],
choose Keynote Webcast Replay, then choose Java or Real Player, go
to the popup selection, and on the left, choose the NC05Q1 Q & A,
the final question-and-answer session and listen for yourself. At
the very end of the segment, the executives are asked about the
patent pledge, two questions interspersed with another about
something else."

Think I'll pass.

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

Dewey Edwards wrote:
[SNIP Stuff about the CDDL, which relates to OpenSolaris...]

Solaris 10 is _not_ the same as OpenSolaris.

The un-encumbered source code to Solaris 10 will be released as
"OpenSolaris" under the CDDL, which is not GPL compatible. (BTW - the
MPL which Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird source is released under is not
GPL compatible either)

The Solaris 10 Operating Environment license is free. Both for SPARC
and x86 systems, with as many CPUs as you can buy/steal/build.

I'm upgrading an Ultra 10 from SOl 7 tomorrow, and will do an install on
the old duron machine at home rsn.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

(BTW - the MPL which Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird source is
released under is not GPL compatible either)

In case anyone is interested in this, there's
<http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html>.

Either the K-Meleon folks are jumping the gun or all of Gecko is
already relicensed. I suspect the former, but I don't know.
K-Meleon claims to be GPL'd.