[Sunhelp] FW: Solaris 8 Early Access Program!

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Greetings!

On 09-Dec-1999 Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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.

 Well, ive got here a packaged Solaris 7 (5/99), which allready brings a CD
with lots of freeware tools precompiled (source also include).

 Regards