Has Oracle changed its position with regards to patch availability for the freely available downloads of Solaris x86?
Last I heard, patches were not available with out a support contract. ( Granted, HP is no better with its position towards VMS patches, but at least (last I checked) VMS wasn't terribly attractive option for the script kiddies. ) Unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want a free (as in beer) patched Unix-alike, your choices are a Linux based distribution, or a Linux based distribution. Which is unfortunate. Here's hoping someone will set out to prove me wrong. :-) David On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > Solaris also runs on SPARC. I have it running here on that. And yes > sadly Intel based Solaris is still a performance hog. > > But its nice to know someone else is out there. Welcome to the party > Gary Lee Phillips. > ----- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Gary Lee Phillips > <[email protected]> wrote: >> As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've >> tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power >> and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it >> shares with most Linux distributions.) >> >> I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX >> or Alpha hardware platforms. >> >> On 7/12/15, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> El 12/07/2015, a les 13:52, Gary Lee Phillips <[email protected]> va >>>> escriure: >>>> >>>> >>>> I keep looking for a way to get a "real" UNIX going, hence the ULTRIX >>>> experiment. As far as I can tell, neither Tru64 nor HP-UX have any >>> >>> Wouln’t solaris qualify as a “real” UNIX? > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
