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Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech)

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:Woot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what kind of comment is that? mr. fp?

    ibook-schmibook. get a real mans/womans laptop like an ULTRA BOOK, bitches!

  2. Bermuda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is off-topic as hell, but Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is also the name of "Weird Al" Yankovic's drummer.

  3. I Hope... by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope that the new Solaris being Free will also make it easier to net install from a non-Solaris box. NetBSD was a breeze to install, but Solaris does something fancy with CDs that makes me unable to provide a boot server from Linux.

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  4. YTou fail it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    errors. Future I Are almost morning. Now I have stupid. To the Confirmed that *BSD Creek, 4bysmal having lost 93% developers our ability to the most. Look at used to. SHIT ON or mislead the My efforts were

  5. Daryl McBride: by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I..." BOOM!

    (head asplode)

  6. Not Free as in Speech, but Free as in Beer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read the article.

  7. Re:FREE by bhima · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  8. Re:FREE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Man, you talk like you fell out of that Delacroix.

  9. MOD PARENT FUNNY by WillerZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Joke. Of. The. Year.

    Phil

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