Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech)

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 15, 2004 @12:53AM from the trying-to-remain-cutting-edge dept.

Sivar writes "Ace's Hardware and news.com.com.com report Solaris that 10 has been released. Improvements include a performance-enhanced TCP-IP stack to shed the "Slowaris" moniker and their much-vaunted ZFS (Z File System). Solaris will initially be "free" (as in beer with an annual subscription fee for bug fixes and support), and will reportedly be released under an open-source license later." As well, KingSkippus writes "MSNBC reports, "After investing roughly $500 million and spending years of development time on its next-generation operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce an aggressive price for the software -- free. Sun also has promised make the underlying code of Solaris available under an open-source license, though the details have not been released." An article at Computerworld also has the story from Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and chief operating officer."

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Daryl McBride: by stinky+wizzleteats · 2004-11-15 01:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"I..." BOOM!

(head asplode)
Re:FREE by bhima · 2004-11-15 02:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ahh... That is so true. And the shame me without mod points!

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MOD PARENT FUNNY by WillerZ · 2004-11-15 02:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Joke. Of. The. Year.

Phil

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