On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:16:43PM +0200, Andrew Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:00, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> > Solaris 9/x86 *is* a lot cheaper - you can download it for free and
> > get a free licence for x86 (under certain conditions - see Sun's site)
> > and patches are free, too... ;-)
>
> This is great! Seems though it is free for non-commercial use, & only if
> you're installing it on a single processor computer purchased from Sun
> or authorised reseller? :|
The latter restriction only applies to Sparc, not to x86, as far as I
understand it. I'm not 100% sure about the former.
You might also want to check the discussions on Usenet, namely on
comp.os.solaris and comp.sys.sun.*
Cheerio,
Thomas
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