What about patches and software updates? Anybody know? I have running free instances I'm not happy having to upgrade them to opensolaris as I remember a lot of headaches on my production systems. (I had a degraded networkdriver around snv93 that out my networkspeed to 90kbit - restoring snv85 driver fixed that but that disappointed me and put me on solaris 10 for production....)
The second sad thing i read today from oracle, the other beeing the all or nothing hardware support thingie - first sony with killing otheros, now oracle :( :( I'm gonna try out freebsd with zfs soon..... ----- Originalnachricht ----- Von: ug-chosug-bounces at opensolaris.org <ug-chosug-bounces at opensolaris.org> An: ug-chosug at opensolaris.org <ug-chosug at opensolaris.org> Gesendet: Tue Mar 30 22:33:15 2010 Betreff: [ug-chosug] Solaris 10 Solaris 10 is the King yes but no more free +++ NEWS +++ Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun's UNIX operating system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to purchase a service contract in order to use the software. Sun's policy was that anyone could use Solaris 10 for free without official support. Users could get a license entitling them to perpetual commercial use by filling out a simple survey and giving their e-mail address to Sun. Oracle is discontinuing this practice, and is repositioning the free version as a limited-duration trial. "Your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded Software," the new license says. Bob _______________________________________________ Switzerland OpenSolaris Mailing List ug-chosug at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/chosug LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=161188&trk=hb_side_g ISO images: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/opensolaris.org/release_isos/ IPS: http://ips.osug.ch:10000/release/ Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31224908 at N08
