Re: End of "Free" Solaris binary licence program - now it's free.

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 02/20/05

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    Chris Newport <crn.news@nospam.netunix.com> writes:

    >Some Ultrasparc 1 machines such as the E150, Ultra1 and some Ultra2
    >systems are a little younger, but this misses the point.

    Adding support back for those in 64 bit mode would be relatively
    easy.

    >Perhaps an unsupported version of Solaris 8 and 9 with 64 bit support
    >removed should be available for download. Being 32 bit only would ensure
    >that all modern systems use Solaris 10 whilst keeping support for those
    >who are using older machines (typically at home).

    Good one :-) Probably under the "don't call us if something goes
    wrong". I think that the other issue would be that installing them
    and not properly hardening them would cause issues almost
    immediately after install.

    >I have a feeling that marketing issues are involved, there are still
    >many older systems in commercial production use and Sun want these
    >customers to buy new kit.

    But that old kit presumably already has a valid Solaris license
    and/or support contract (including updates).

    If not, then it's commercial production system of little apparent
    value to the organization running it.

    >The only other viable option for older machines is Linux, but this does
    >not help those who want to learn about Solaris. There are also other
    >issues such as FC25 and Sun4d SMP support which are not stable in Linux.

    There are a lot of issues with Linux on SPARC; you might be better
    of running one of the BSDs.

    Casper

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