Panarchy Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Look What I just found!Sun Microsystems Offering free solaris 10, The operating system comes on a single DVD supporting both the x86 and SPARC versions. Also included is Sun Studio 11.".. This offer is for limited time only. Grab the opportunity.click here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Looks good, thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 ^ Welcome! Feel free to edit my post so the link works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 ^ Welcome! Feel free to edit my post so the link works.Done :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 What does it do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 What does it do?Take this opportunity to get familiar with the most advanced operating system on the planet and the tools which enable the highest optimizations and best runtime performance on the Solaris Operating System, bar-none.Sun Studio software provides optimizing C, C++ and Fortan compilers, visual performance tools, and high performance libraries to enhance your Solaris development environment.Also look here.The stuff that comes out of Sun Microsystems (Java, OpenOffice, StarOffice and others) is impressive and I take the view that anything that makes Microsoft take notice is worth encouraging. Remember that Mr Gates and Mr Sun are great personal enemies after Sun won the battle over MS stealing Java JM, modifying it ever so slightly, calling it Windows Virtual Machine and incorporating it as an essential part of Windows.The best part of Sun software is that most of it is free or, there is a free version of it for the personal user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Also look here.The stuff that comes out of Sun Microsystems (Java, OpenOffice, StarOffice and others) is impressive and I take the view that anything that makes Microsoft take notice is worth encouraging. Remember that Mr Gates and Mr Sun are great personal enemies after Sun won the battle over MS stealing Java JM, modifying it ever so slightly, calling it Windows Virtual Machine and incorporating it as an essential part of Windows.The best part of Sun software is that most of it is free or, there is a free version of it for the personal user.I am ever so impressed that there are people who know what all this is about. I am afraid I don't.It looks to me to be an alternative to Microsoft's Windows Operating system, but I cannot easily see what advantages it offers apart from the fact it is free. But as I have Windows working well, and most people will also have Windows pre=installed, I cannot see what I would gain from Solaris.But good luck to those who use it. Competition is good.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I don't think Solaris is very much use to the "average" user like you or me but, for commercial and enthusiast's use I think it could be very interesting. A few years ago, I counted myself as a computer enthusiast but I think I'm getting a bit ancient for that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Thanks for the info. I'll leave well alone, and stick with what I know. I took part in a trial for the 'other place', some time ago, trying out a Sun Office system. I did not like it compared with Office 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 It has finally arrived, I shall install it tomorrow to see what it is like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 It took some two months to get...? , Geeze... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Good to hear! But it sound a bit slow, I told some people on another forum, and it arrived for them about a month ago. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 I think it depends on the first letter of your surname - I'm a W and mine came yesterday as well :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 - I'm a W and mine came yesterday as well :)Don't believe what nasty people say about you. :D Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I don't think Solaris is very much use to the "average" user like you or me but, for commercial and enthusiast's use I think it could be very interesting. A few years ago, I counted myself as a computer enthusiast but I think I'm getting a bit ancient for that now.I installed it and had to jump through hoops to get it to connect to the internet, as pops said it is more for commercial use than the home user.It also also messed up GRUB and I had to manually edit it.So if any one is thinking of trying this out and just runs Windows my advice is leave well alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Hmm... does it run 'faster' the XP? Cause I am thinking of installing it on an XP PC, as I don't need it to access the internet, I just need it to run Bridge on. (For my Grandma)Oh! I just applied for it (1 minute ago)!Come on!Only one month to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted May 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 YAY! Mine arrived in the mail! WOOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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