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Greg Menke
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 Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Performance of Blase 2000 CPUs |
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | Greg Menke wrote:
I was under the impression that to legally use Solaris 10 on anything
more than an experimental basis you had to buy a support contract for at
least a year- and that you needed one to get patches via pca (I entirely
abandoned smpatch last year on all my Solaris systems).
From where?
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Support contract purchased through Sun that would allow access to
patches.
| Quote: | OTOH Sun has changed their policies so often over the last couple years
that I can't keep track anymore.
Not for Solaris 10, it has been free for any use from day one.
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But policies for access to patches has changed around quite a bit.
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Josh McKee
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: Re: Performance of Blase 2000 CPUs |
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In article <m3irb1tlwq.fsf@venus.pienet>,
Greg Menke <gdmnews@toadmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Josh McKee <jtmckee@rm-bogus-ac.net> writes:
In article <m3hcqm7zlp.fsf@venus.pienet>,
Greg Menke <gdmnews@toadmail.com> wrote:
Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> writes:
Greg Menke <gdmnews@toadmail.com> writes:
But I'm very happy with the dual 700. The drives are a bit noisy, or
perhaps the acoustic shelding isn't as good as the U60. But the fans
are maybe quieter. I bought a snazzy USB mouse, I imagine most any
USB
keyboard will also work but you'll only get Stop-A & friends if you
get
a Sun kbd. Probably will put Solaris 10 on at some point, but I had a
legal Sol9 so used that instead.
Of course, a legal copy of S10 is free so it's very easy to upgrade to
it.
(Or Solaris Nevada, especially the developer release which comes with
all the compilers & tools)
True. I just don't have a support contract in place for myself at home
and I do want the patches. I don't have the time and inclination to
mess with Solaris beyond buying & installing & using- its a fantastic OS
to install and put to use without incurring drama. I get my fill of
drama with Linux.
Sun doesn't require a support contract for Solaris 10 patches either.
You can obtain them using patch management tools like "smpatch" (which
is much easier than downloading a patch cluster).
I was under the impression that to legally use Solaris 10 on anything
more than an experimental basis you had to buy a support contract for at
least a year- and that you needed one to get patches via pca (I entirely
abandoned smpatch last year on all my Solaris systems).
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Solaris 10 has been free for any use since it was first released.
| Quote: | OTOH Sun has changed their policies so often over the last couple years
that I can't keep track anymore.
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They have. Here's what I recall/understood their licensing to be over
the various releases:
Solaris 2.0 - 2.6 - You need to buy an appropriate license.
Solaris 7 - Free for educational or hobbyist use.
Solaris 8 - Free for any use on systems with 8 or less processors.
Solaris 9 - Free for use on a system with only a single CPU. Systems
capable of multiple CPUs, even if they contained only a single CPU, were
not free. In addition the system had to be purchased from Sun or a Sun
authorized reseller. Effectively eliminating use on private sale systems.
Solaris 10 - Free for any use on any system. Patches for security are
free. I can't recall the status of recommended patches (I don't believe
they're free).
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