Re: Free copy of Solaris 10 on DVD by mail

Just in time to run Adobe Flash apparently! ;)

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2007/03/flash_player_9_5.cfm
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/03/expanded_platform_support.html

"There are now beta versions of Flash Player 9 available from Adobe
Labs to support Solaris on both x86 and Sparc CPU architectures."

CK

On 3/21/07, Keith Snape <lukano@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got my copy yesterday as well.
>
> On 3/20/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ooo... it took two months, but it just showed up in my mailbox today :)
> >
> > 3 DVDs:
> >
> > - Solaris 10 for Sparc
> > - Solaris 10 for x64/x86
> > - Developer Tools: Sun Studio 11, Sun Java Studio Creator 2 (update 1), Sun
> > Java Studio Enterprise 8, NetBeans 5.0
> >
> > You can find a review and screenshots linked from
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9164
> >
> > I'll be bringing this to the next meeting (I guess that will be a week from
> > tomorrow? :) as fun swag, so if more than one person wants it, you can fight
> > over it there ;)
> >
> > CK
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As seen on Distrowatch:
> > >
> > > http://www2.sun.de/dc/forms/reg_us_2211_391.jsp
> > >
> > > "For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which
> > > includes the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86
> > > platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software."
> > >
> > > Solaris is covered by the CDDL (see
> > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html), though
> > there is talk
> > > of switching to the GPL (see
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=201)
> > > at some point in the future...
> > >
> > > CK
> > >
> >
> >
>
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Received on Thu Mar 22 00:07:37 2007