[Sunhelp] Anybody gotten the FCS version of sol8 yet?

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Thu Mar 16 10:46:27 CST 2000


On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:20:46AM -0500, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:
> No - but I was wondering why if the have this free version why they don't
> make it available for download?

I doubt ANYONE wants to download multiple CDs worth of stuff.

> You need to still pay $75....

>From what I heard, the $75 (versus $35 for other "free solaris" versions) is
to help cover the cost of the "non-free" and other demo software in the
kit (if you look at Sun's page, there's TONS of stuff that comes with 8 that
they never included with any previous release).

Bill

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