[Sunhelp] FW: Solaris 8 Early Access Program!

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

oops - I was not on the list then - Thanks Bill....

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 09, 1999 7:50 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] FW: Solaris 8 Early Access Program!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:48:16AM -0500, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:
> > > Announcing the Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment Early 
> > > Access Program.
> > > For the first time, Sun is offering customers like you the 
> > > opportunity to have early access to the features and 
> > > benefits of the new Solaris 8 Operating Environment.
> 
> I announced this on SunHelp about a month or so ago, and I've even got my
> initial reviews/thoughts (I'm running it now) up on the web site.  So far,
> it seems a LOT nicer - not that many changes, but on a sun4u system it
> seems
> about 25% faster than Solaris7, and StarOffice DEFINITELY runs a LOT
> faster.
> 
> Sun is rumored to be including gnu gcc/top/emacs/ssh and a bunch of other
> freeware tools on a bundled CD with the retail release.
> 
> Bill
> 
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