[rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...

[Robert Darlington]

Can anybody verify if I can get security patches for Solaris 10 without
paying Oracle?  If not, this thing is getting dumped and OBSD is getting
loaded.

Thanks,
Bob

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Scott Quinn <saquinn624 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Haroldkarl wrote:
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> "Subject: [rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...
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> So, now that one needs a service contract to even download Solaris or
> patches, what is the modest Sun enduser to do? What flavor of Linux (with a
> GUI!) will handle fibre channel?
>
> Oh well... Happy New Year anyway!!!!
> haroldkarl"
>
>
>
>  Just took a look at it and you don't. You now need to have an "Oracle
> Technology Network" signin rather than the Sun signin, but you can still
> download it for free. Note that it looks like they've changed the license
> yet
> again and now the free version is "only for the                purpose of
> developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your
> applications, and not for any other purpose." As has been standard for a
> while
> you don't get any patches, either.
>
>
> As far as other OSes I'm becoming more and more a proponent of the xBSDs.
> There seems to be much less "rattling of the apple cart" from there than
> Linux
> has. Sadly you do need to know your text consoles to use it, and (except
> for
> the efforts to get ZFS on BSD) the filesystems aren't as advanced.
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