Solaris 10 for free
New Release, News November 16th, 2004
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Solaris 10 for free
Sun Microsystems have invested around USD500 Millions on this next generation Operating System and they have decided to give it out for free! They are following the Linux way of delivering products with Operating System to be freely available and they will charge for support and technical expertise.
Sun is looking for more public support for this move with hope that more people would download Solaris 10. And developers would be lured into making applications for it as it becomes more popular. They have an excellent infrastructure to provide support around the world, which could result into more interest in Solaris when compared to Linux.
This release is very important for Sun in the long run. The success of Solaris would matter a lot in Sun’s return in the market as a dominant player with a profitable business outing. Solaris 10 will be unveiled Monday in a live webcast of an event in San Jose and would be publicly available by the end of January 2005.
The Register says that the new release of Solaris would come with close to 600 new features and would try to lure back the customers who moved onto Linux due to old expensive licensing.
I have heard a lot about Solaris and plan to give this a try once its publicly available…
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I personally think windows is best. Ignore the others.
Windows is the biggest beta test since the space shuttle. And unlike other beta tests you pay for it.. large!.. only pussies and faggots would say windows is the best… typical yanks.
I just hope we get the proper instructions for installing and the programs that will run. A good tutorial and advice in other words.
what? you pay for windows
O God Shrek, you crack me up… “Windows is best”, at what??? Crashing your applications, or making a perfectly good system run like sh*t.
I wonder if the source code will be available to the public? I also wonder about Solaris’ ability to be ported for video intensive applications? (i.e. gaming). I think Solaris currently is more ported to the typical network applications server rather than home use. IT pros rejoice!!
Ah, Shrek just didn’t finish his sentence… obviously, he meant to say “Windows is the best at leaving huge gaping security holes all over your network” or somesuch.
This has got to be the dumbest bunch of OS bigot commentaries I have seen to date. Solaris is not a gaming machine it is best used as an application server which is where most Unixes shine in general. If you want a better Unix Desktop try Debian http://www.debian.org and if you have a non listed graphics card use Generic Vesa and know the scanrates for your monitor to get X Windows running. I will download the early release which should be close just for laughs ;D
I agree with everyone. Windows is a piece of junk. In the future, I promise to make a more reliable system.
Reaction 2 just goes to show the overall intelligence of the average unix/linux adept. Admit it people, Windows is the only OS that combines open-ness with ease of use. I always have to laugh when I hear these pseudo-techies brag about the wonders of linux, an OS based on code written in the 60s that (if I look at Novell’s new Personal Desktop (based on Suse)) hasn’t really evolved a lot since then. I wish you all the best using Yast2 to update your machine to its latest video drivers :)
Let’s hope Solaris 10 $500M research has actually added something to the legacy.
So they’re going to make money from support and technical expertise? The OS is going to have so many problems you have to call them up for
red hat and suse and mandrake use same mechanism. but my free linux works fine.
Hah, this is the funnest comments thread I’ve read in a long time! I can’t decide who is really being serious or is just that bigoted!
We all have a favourite OS, and we shouldn’t put anyone down for ther own personal preference.
Of course I have to chip in my opinion, as someone who as tried many OS’s including all the versions of Windows from 3.1 up, Linux, Mac OS 9, OS X, BeOS and QNX (remember those?), my favorite is Linux. Why? because it seems I can always get it to do what I want it to. Sure I have to put in the effort but it always pays off, or I can find someone to help me. I find Windows just too limiting technically and the realiabilty is still terrible, but you really need to try something else for a LONG period of time to realise this. And yes Linux may be based on ideas that emerged over 30 years ago, but they were good ideas, unlike some of the really bad decsions Microsft have made in their design -lack of real privelliges, full unix networking without a real firewall, ActiveX, far too tight intergration between the OS and the biggest security risk availble to computers known as the internet, etc etc.
And as far as an OS that should just do what it’s supposed to do then I’ll take OS X anyday. I’d use it at home instead of just at work if I could afford it.
As for the other OS’s, they were nice diversions but their life’s were either cut short or they just didn’t have the community. That’s important to me now. With Linux I feel I’m in a community that wants to make things better, with Windows I felt I was in a community that had no control on making things better, but was ..OK.. at trying to help people with problems that someone else caused (ie Microsoft).
That’s my 4.5p any way.
I have yet to see an install of any open source operating system that has been trouble free. Redhat, Debian, Suse and Mandrake and any other non MS operating system require you to be a geek with a love of command line interfaces and crappy Kernels. Getting a driver to work in open source software is like trying to tie knots in smoke. Knock Windows all you want…it works…99.9% of the time. If you were running a computer shop and had to install a non MS system on each machine you would have to double the price of your products just to cover the man hours needed to get things running smoothly. You would also need to wear 3 star jumpers, high waisters, carry a backpack, have an obsession with astronomy, support the campaign for real ale and have a deep seated hatred for Bill Gates. Windows we love you.
nicely said :)
I kinda disagree. I installed Mandrake on my system and everything worked fine, there was nothing to configure, my monitor graphics, modem, soundcard, graphics tablet, DVD burner and wireless keyboard all worked first time. When I went back to re-install Windows on a spare partition (so my dad can play games, though he uses Linux for everything else) I actually had to go looking for the driver disks for my hardware! In my case Linux has far better hardware support than windows, but then I am careful what hardware I buy.
If I was running a Linux shop, I’d boot the machines from the network and do automated installs whilst I go watch telly. If I was careful what hardware I purchased, there would be no need to configure anything. Plus every install would be license free. That would be worth more than the cost of astute hardware purchasing. PS: How do you install windows with no disks, without setting the country, without entering a license key, without choosing what programs to install, without setting users, without configuring Internet connections, without installing office separately, and get from a clean system to a login without having to be anywhere near the computer after pressing the power button? I don’t know, but I guess this probably can be done on Windows too. For free. Right?
I personally don’t knock windows, I feel it’s good as an entry level platform. If that’s all you want a computer to do, then that’s fine. However, after seeing the mess of spyware and viri on friends and family’s computers, I am starting to change my mind on that point.
In my case, I use Linux because it makes it quicker and easier to do the things I want to do. Plus I don’t wish to spend the money on windows upgrades, and the usual unneeded hardware upgrades that go with it.
But that is me. One of my best friends still uses windows, and I don’t put him down for it. It suits his needs fine -after I set up anti-virus, anti-spyware and a firewall for him. Windows didn’t do that for him automatically.
Each to their own and peace be with all!
Ahhhh you have some valid points there matey. I aint knocking Linux totally. This ridiculous situation with netborn viri and mal/ad/spyware is for me the biggest single problem with MS products, and now I hear they are introducing license validation in return for security updates. I dread to think how many of us are using pirated MS software. Maybe this will accelerate the improvement of open source software to the point where anyone, even simpletons like myself can use it. As for me, my version of windows is like every other piece of software I have….purchased with pieces of eight :o…..nuff said.
sir,
im interested in solaris 10 ver what should i do can u send me the trial copy.
thank u
pradeep