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Solaris 8 & 9 Free for x86 Once Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-more-os-to-cram-onto-your-box dept.

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.

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  1. Hmmm... by Rotten168 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... so how long will it be before Sun files for bankruptzy?

  2. haha by VAXGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, good thing they made it free. Solaris x86 is worth $0 anyway. Even Sun is making their desktop system Linux for X86, with their "java" desktop. I think this will be one of the last x86 Solaris releases. Sun is basically throwing away $ every second they develop Solaris instead of their Linux distribution.

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  3. Re:What about PPC users? by ChaseTec · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>Solaris x86 8 & 9 is once again Free (as in beer) to download for x86 users.
    >Can we download the x86 version for free? ;)

    No, it requires the use of the right mouse button.

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  4. Re:Hardware Support by mog007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dunno about that, but the vaporware runs great!

    *Runs back to Duke Nukem Forever*

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