Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by SirChainsaw on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:48AM
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Hopefully they've removed the requirement to have at least a T4 processor. We can't all afford that :-(.
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Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by lksus on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:48PM
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Unfortunately, no. I guess it is because Solaris 11.4 was originally going to be Solaris 12. It has a lot of new stuff and modifications compared to 11.3. I guess they wanted to optimize it for the newer SPARC processors (or get enterprises to update their old systems).
Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by rsaxvc on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:53AM
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T4, FujiSPARC-X/X+/XII, or AMD64/EM64T.
Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by gnu8 on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:12AM
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Outside of this announcement, I think all of the releases are available to download for noncommercial evaluation and development.
Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by cbmuser on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:37AM
(#31040073)
Yes, but you don’t get access to the update repositories which is what you want to keep the system secure.
Re:Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use
by gnu8 on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:32PM
(#31045480)
I don’t think Solaris gets much attention from either the blue or red side these days. Patched or not, I would keep a Solaris machine segmented off with my other retro crap and not use it for anything public-facing where it might be exposed to attack.