On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:50:40PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 19:08 5/10/2004, leam wrote: > >Um, Solaris is free for <8 CPU machines. At least that's what they told us. > You can download the software at no cost. However, the license to use it is > *only* free if you acquired your Sun machine from them or an authorized > distributor. If you buy a U10 on Ebay from me, you have to pay for the > license to use the software. Also, the CPU limit is now <2 CPUs. It used to be more (there *was* a time when the licence for Solaris 8 *was* free of cost for home users <= 2 CPUs, but that's at least 2 years ago - and is the reason why I do have one U10 with Solaris), but these days, you even have to buy a license for a SparcStation 10, theoretically... Cheerio, Thomas -- ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"
