Read up on the copyleft in the CDDL, it might be sufficient for your needs.
3) Solaris, at some point, is intended to be a distro of OpenSolaris. Sun will support Solaris. Other distros based on OpenSolaris will have their own support mechanisms.
ZFS is not released yet. When it is done, it will be released in binary form to Solaris Express, and in source form to OpenSolaris, and will be for both SPARC and x86.
Zones/Containers work on x86/amd64, so I don't know what the poster is talking about.
As for your MCAD software, post the name of the vendor and put some public pressure on them.
ZFS hasn't been putback yet into the main Solaris ON consolidation (think of it as a private fork by the ZFS development team). When it's putback, it'll be part of OpenSolaris.
You would pay $$$ for support, but Solaris is provided free of charge.
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It's pretty simple. Most ISVs (Oracle, for example), will only certify their software under RHEL. Most companies will only run software under platforms that are fully certified and supported by the vendors. This makes them locked in to RHEL, and to paying the licensing costs for that system. From that perspective, Redhat and Solaris cost the same, and are direct competitors.
If you saw the video of Jon Schwartz at the Solaris 10 launch, he directly addressed this. He mentions Debian, Gentoo, and Yellowdog by name, and acknowleged that they were not what Sun is targeting.
Sun's has had this working for years on Sun Ray thin clients. Your working session is frozen when you remove a smart card, and is resumed on another appliance when you put the smart card back in. It works all over the country, so a session can be resumed anywhere.
crypt() is just an interface to an underlying algorithm. In Solaris 9 12/02, there is an option to use Blowfish or MD5:
Enhanced crypt() Function
Password encryption protects passwords from being read by intruders. Three strong password encryption modules are now available in the software:
* A version of Blowfish that is compatible with BSD systems
* A version of MD5 that is compatible with BSD and Linux systems
* A stronger version of MD5 that is compatible with other Solaris 9 12/02 systems
I'm tired of hearing this. Redhat charges up $2500 for Red Hat Enterprise Edition Advanced Server, and they charge $179 for the workstation edition.
Big companies don't download ISOs and deploy them on the desktop or for mission critical apps. They buy prepackaged solutions so they have vendors to support them when they get in trouble.
Has anyone been able to find this place in satellite photos from terraserver.com or something like that? It would be interesting to see it they are in the database.
The E10K is a niche system. It only really comes into it's own if you are going over 20 CPUs or so, or you are going to be using the DR capabilities.
The biggest limitation that I found on the one that we had (we let the lease and replaced it with a bunch of 6500s) is difficulty on using SCSI storage. Each system board only has 3 SBUS slots. Your first two board will each have one netword card (hme or qfe) apiece. That leaves a maximum of 4 UDWIS ports for two boards. Typically two of those are used for the boot disks, leaving you with a problem.
Since there is no way to add expansion slots without adding system boards, and system boards need CPU and memory, adding storage tends to be more expensive than necessary.
That being said, in the right situation, with the right planning, they are the right solution. I personally found it to be too much of a hassle for what we were using it for.
As for the 450s, they are designed for I/O, period. Yes, 20 internal disks on 5 ultra wide SCSI channels is nice, Remember though, that you can also add quite a few PCI cards (I think 8). Picture one of these stuffed with 8 PCI dual channel ultra wide SCSI cards, with each channel hooked up to a 100 GB tray, and you have one wickedly high bandwidth server.
You've evidently never worked in a large corporation. Granted, the point haired boss in the cartoon is an exageration, but in spirit it is an accurate depiction. Nontechnical people are given technical manager positions all the time. We're talking people who can't even log in here. Kernel code is a sly way of talking about popcorn to these folks.
Mac OS X is not going to be free, so it does not exactly occupy the same space as LinuxPPC. If current pricing remains the same, it should be at around $99 or so, which is about the same, or a little more than a well stocked/supported Linux distro.
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At the time of release, the encryption bits were covered under export law. Now that the code is open source, the crypto stuff can be opened.
It's in the roadmap to be release within 3 months.
How is this different from the relationship between RedHat's proprietary products and Fedora?
Sun is still bound by the terms of the CDDL to publish source files that are changed, and also has an interest to see the OpenSolaris community grow.
1) Simple answer: YES
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2) From a CDDL standpoint, I think so, but you might not be able to from a GNU standpoint:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing
Read up on the copyleft in the CDDL, it might be sufficient for your needs.
3) Solaris, at some point, is intended to be a distro of OpenSolaris. Sun will support Solaris. Other distros based on OpenSolaris will have their own support mechanisms.
ZFS is not released yet. When it is done, it will be released in binary form to Solaris Express, and in source form to OpenSolaris, and will be for both SPARC and x86.
Zones/Containers work on x86/amd64, so I don't know what the poster is talking about.
As for your MCAD software, post the name of the vendor and put some public pressure on them.
ZFS hasn't been putback yet into the main Solaris ON consolidation (think of it as a private fork by the ZFS development team). When it's putback, it'll be part of OpenSolaris.
You would pay $$$ for support, but Solaris is provided free of charge.
It's pretty simple. Most ISVs (Oracle, for example), will only certify their software under RHEL. Most companies will only run software under platforms that are fully certified and supported by the vendors. This makes them locked in to RHEL, and to paying the licensing costs for that system. From that perspective, Redhat and Solaris cost the same, and are direct competitors.
If you saw the video of Jon Schwartz at the Solaris 10 launch, he directly addressed this. He mentions Debian, Gentoo, and Yellowdog by name, and acknowleged that they were not what Sun is targeting.
So is open source software. The copyright is held by the author, which what gives the GPL it's teeth. You're confusing OSS and public domain.
Sun's has had this working for years on Sun Ray thin clients. Your working session is frozen when you remove a smart card, and is resumed on another appliance when you put the smart card back in. It works all over the country, so a session can be resumed anywhere.
and System Administration Guide: Security Services
Madhatter (er, the Java Desktop System) is not a released product yet, so marketing it would not be correct. I don't know if it is public beta or not.
He'll be unemployed exactly as long as he wants to be. There are numerous companies scrambling to hire him.
I'm tired of hearing this. Redhat charges up $2500 for Red Hat Enterprise Edition Advanced Server, and they charge $179 for the workstation edition.
Big companies don't download ISOs and deploy them on the desktop or for mission critical apps. They buy prepackaged solutions so they have vendors to support them when they get in trouble.
They're not smarter or dumber than your run of the mill geek. They just have more flexible ethics.
And that is why they are in the mansions while we live where we live. Doesn't matter if they are spammers or CEOs.
They might be infringing as well as stated in this story.
The most important reason for including Grace Hopper is that she is credited as the first to apply the term "bug" to a computer problem.
It's probably OK *with* X windows.
The pricing varys from $50 for 150 seats to $25 for 10,000 seats. If you have over 10,000 seats call your sales rep for a quote.
The biggest limitation that I found on the one that we had (we let the lease and replaced it with a bunch of 6500s) is difficulty on using SCSI storage. Each system board only has 3 SBUS slots. Your first two board will each have one netword card (hme or qfe) apiece. That leaves a maximum of 4 UDWIS ports for two boards. Typically two of those are used for the boot disks, leaving you with a problem.
Since there is no way to add expansion slots without adding system boards, and system boards need CPU and memory, adding storage tends to be more expensive than necessary.
That being said, in the right situation, with the right planning, they are the right solution. I personally found it to be too much of a hassle for what we were using it for.
As for the 450s, they are designed for I/O, period. Yes, 20 internal disks on 5 ultra wide SCSI channels is nice, Remember though, that you can also add quite a few PCI cards (I think 8). Picture one of these stuffed with 8 PCI dual channel ultra wide SCSI cards, with each channel hooked up to a 100 GB tray, and you have one wickedly high bandwidth server.
They don't require 48 outlets. There is a site review before install, but I'm pretty sure the chassis only needs two (220V) power cords.
Managers in the real world ARE that dumb.
Seems to me that if you recompile mod_perl with 5.6 it should work just fine.
Mac OS X is not going to be free, so it does not exactly occupy the same space as LinuxPPC. If current pricing remains the same, it should be at around $99 or so, which is about the same, or a little more than a well stocked/supported Linux distro.
I say "stabilized" because things have been that way for two minutes, which is all the stability you get these days.
Congrats all who were in on it. You just made a bunch of dough.