Fedora on SUN Ultra sparc10

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Fri May 7 07:11:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:01:54AM +0200, Martijn Moret wrote:
> Why not stick woth solaris 9 it's a great OS (free to download)

Yeah, but the licence is not free, unless you've bought the machine from
Sun or an authorised dealer:

<quote>
You can use the software for non-commercial usage on single processor
systems supplied to you by Sun or its authorized distributors or based
on the x86 architecture.
</quote>

(see http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/index.html )

Of course, one can always choose to run Solaris illegally without a
licence.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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