Re: End of "Free" Solaris binary licence program - now it's free.
From: Scott Howard (scott_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 02/20/05
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Date: 20 Feb 2005 00:45:40 GMT
Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
> But what are people supposed to do *now* if they have an oldish Sun
> today and want to install a Solaris OS on it?
Buy a copy off ebay? Sure, it's not legal, but if you're using it on a
home sun4m machine I can't really see anyone careing...
> BTW, if the Netcraft site is to be believed, Sun are using Solaris 9 for
> their web servers.
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sun.com
Pointing NetCraft (or nmap) at any Solaris 10 box returns Solaris 9 -
they haven't added the code to detect the differences yet.
Even so, www.sun.com may well be running S9 (I don't know one way or the
other). If you look in the /etc/release file on S10 you'll see that it was
build on the 22nd of Jan. ie, even interally we've had the release version
of S10 for less than a month - hardly enough time to schedule an upgrade
of all fo your public-facing machines!
Internally a reasonable number of machines are running various builds of
S10, including some fairly critical infrastructure servers.
> Somewhere I read that Solaris 8 is the most commonly used Solaris.
Possibly some time ago, but right now the vast majority of servers within
Sun are Solaris 9. There's a scattering of S8, but they are few and far
between.
Scott.
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