I have gotten both Solaris 2.6 (intel/SPARC) and Solaris 2.7 (intel/SPARC)
from this offer...It has been fantastic. For the cost of media and
shipping (around $10-$15) I was able to upgrade my machine from SunOS
4.1.4 (it's a SPARCstation 2) to Solaris 2.7. I can tell you that,
compared to linux, Solaris is a big memory hog, but I actually do
development/admin work on Solaris a fair amount so I need the OS. That
doesn't stop me from dual booting my SPARCstation between linux and
Solaris though...although that will come to a halt when I get my PC up and
running...linux will move there and Solaris will become my OS on the SPARC
platform. It's well worth the cost...especially considering that Sun
sells Solaris for ~$350 per license.
Ido
On Thu, 13 May 1999, James Yeung wrote:
> Has anyone tried out Sun's offer of free Solaris 7 for non-commercial
> users? I just check out the site, and you just have to pay for the
> media(CD) and shipping...sounds interesting. Anyone have this running?
> They also have lxrun now...
>
> http://www.sun.com/solaris/freesolaris.html
>
> -James
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