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

From: Chris Newport (crn.news_at_nospam.netunix.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:46:34 +0000

Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:35:15 +0000, Chris Newport a écrit :
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> I heard that BSD does better on some of these machines (not smp though).

BSD does work better on Sun4c machines, but these are now becoming a
rarity. The lack of SMP support is a problem.

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