[rescue] Linux

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <Geoffrey.Mendelson at mobileye.com> wrote:
> Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> > I wish HP would treat their various OS 
> > offerings the way Sun treats Solaris (at least, when they are
> > offering free downloads for low end boxen anyway).
> 
> Not anymore. :-(
> 
> I just had to pay $20 to download a copy of Solaris 8 because we
> bought a new sever with Solaris 9, and the application we run on
> it checks the operating system release and will not start if it's
> not 7 or 8.

IIRC, Solaris 9 is free, back releases are for sale (used to not be
available at all!).


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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