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Solaris 8 & 9 Free for x86 Once Again
REBloomfield writes "The Register is reporting
that after nearly two years, Solaris x86 8 & 9 is once again Free (as in beer) to download for x86 users." You can download it if you desire. Gives me college flashbacks.
While this is nice for hobbyists, the people who *NEED* Solaris surely could afford 20$ for a copy for a long time now.
Is the parent comment supposed to be funny? I really want to know...
Solaris 8/9 and CDE, what could be better...
At first glance, this sentence seems devoid of humour, the Solaris 8/9 could be considered a deal closer by some, but what's throwing me off is the CDE line. Maybe the fact that I've used CDE is why I'm struggling to understand the possible humour content of this joke.
If it's meant to be a joke, than it sure is a good example of sarcasm...if not, than I feel sorry for the guy who hasn't gotten off a box using CDE to try a different desktop enviro.
You are a total idiot. If Sun is trying to be a Swiss Army knife then what are HP and IBM? If anything Sun this is Sun putting their big toe in the water. They are still a Sparc/Solaris/Java company that happens to also have a few solution for the X86 world. If you think the the Java Desktop System is about Linux (I know you did not mention it; this is for anybody who reads this) then you are sadly mistaken. Anybody who think Linux is an integral part of JDS is a fuckwit. Sun will replace Linux with Solaris and there will be no difference noticed to the user. It is a desktop, an interface, a set of applications. The OS does not matter. In fact OS's are not gonna matter a shit in about 5 years.