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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? 65 thousand dollar question Post 84908 by pressy on Thursday 29th of September 2005 11:24:18 AM

09-29-2005

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well, not totaly true. best example is sun. if you buy sun hardware the solaris licenses are included. since solaris 10 you may use solaris without paying, but you don't get support for that. (solaris 7,8,9 were also free for education and developing purpose). but if you need support you will have to buy licenses. and a solaris license is much cheaper than a redhat enterprise or suse license for the same cpu-count. if anyone would buy a redhat license for a 128 CPU mashine they would also have to pay 1000s of dollars....
sun makes a very nice way with there products, the most of them like the cluster, mailer, hsm, .... are free to download and to "use" for testing purpose, no keys, no closed extra functions, but if you want to use it commercially with support, you have to pay for it, and yes, then it is expensive ;-)
never forget, the linux kernel is free, but not the commercial distributions

gP

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install-solaris

install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

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