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Sun Releases Solaris 9 for Intel
nairnr writes "Sun has announced that it is releasing Solaris 9 for Intel. Any takers? According to Sun, it extends the 'enterprise class OS to the X86 market'. How nice of them. Non-commercial usage is available at no charge, while commercial pricing starts at US $99; attractive OEM pricing is also available. Source code for Solaris will now be available. It seems they are after Microsoft, not Linux. More Power to them."
As much as I like Sun, I have to admit that Linux is better than Solaris. Probably because the Linux community values politics and ideology in addition to technology.
--Lawrence Lessig for Congress!
Despiting being a big fan of Solaris x86, I'm pretty sure it's the latter. :)
People still run Windows on servers? Nigga Please!
More power to them! Because they wouldn't be Microsoft if only they could! No sir! God Bless Sun! Hail Sun, the doer of all Good and Right in this wicked land of Microsoft!
Sun! Sun! Sun!
jack's bicycle is music to my ears
Yesterday I was driving past a hamburger stand and they had a sign out "2 Chesseburgers for $2". Bastards are screwing me all to hell I figure. $2 for some cheeseburgers. I swear I get screwed like that every time I drive by some store that has signs.
Flipped open the newspaper this morning. The damn grocery store was advertising buy one get one free cans of beets. My big problem was with the 'buy one' part. That kind of hook is just a set up to screw a guy. Indeed, I think I was being screwed right then and there, while reading the paper. They act all nice with the 'get one free' part but behind your back they're standing just there just screwing away.
I say we stand up for our rights. No longer should we let people screw us by asking us to enter into a completely voluntary retail contract where in return for a price determined by the market we receive some good or service. That kind of shit has to stop somewhere or next thing you know web sites will be asking you to give them money in exchange for not serving you ads. I don't want to live in that kind of world and neither do you.
Cunning linguists
Is Solaris a graphical OS?
:P
Is it easier to use than Linux?
And, most importantly, is there any way I could run Windows games on it?
How long until this is available on gnutella?
is that "free" as in "free beer" or "free" as in "costs US$20"?
Could it be that they are charging $20 just to be able to see how many out there acctually cares about Solaris on x86?
Management: Lets discontinue Solaris on x86.
Techie who want to keep his job: Oh, no! Please no!
Management: No one want to buy it.
Techie: Eh... Well, lets give it away for free then?
Management: But what good will that do if noone uses it?
Techie: Hm. We can charge like $20 so we can count how many that cares.
Management: Mmmm, money. Good.
Techie: Phew.