[Sderby] Just trying out DSL and had to tell someone

[Andy Davidson]

On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 11:12  pm, Mark Challener wrote:

> I was interested to see Solaris 2.8 in the lug library.  Is that freely
> distributable or would I have to get a key from Sun?
> I am trying it out at work this week on a sparc 30.  I've heard it is 
> picky
> about graphics cards?

It's a commercial product, but it doesn't need licensing or activation 
at install-time; ho hum.

If you're installing it on a Sun machine, you'll find you need to do 
very little faffing with hardware setup - the OS was designed by the 
hardware vendor and therefore, they're designed to work with each 
other.  Another example of this is MacOS and the Apple computers - bung 
the cd in and wait, the OS will recognise your hardware supplied by 
Apple and 'just work' with it.

Good luck, and happy fiddling with Solaris.
Andy

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