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Solaris 10 1/13 published!!!!

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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 6:40 a.m...
I was already thinking the same thing would happen with Oracle Solaris than IRIX 6.5.31 but ...

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/downloads/index.html

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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 9:53 a.m...
It sucks they now want money for their DVD kit. I remember then they mailed those out like candy.

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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 10:35 a.m...
pentium wrote:
It sucks they now want money for their DVD kit. I remember then they mailed those out like candy.

There are imho worse aspects to complain about Oracle Solaris than the price for their DVD kit.
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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 11:50 a.m...
I think Sun did the free disks as a one-shot deal, possibly when they had excess inventory (I seem to recall it was right before a new version was released).

It doesn't surprise me that Oracle is continuing to update Solaris 10. They're a big company, they're making money, Sun-4 SPARC is still a sold architecture, and there probably are a fair number of sites that don't have Solaris 11 capable machines still ponying up the $$$ for service contracts.

SGI was bankrupt, IRIS-4D MIPS was an obsoleted architecture, and they'd already reassigned/removed most of the IRIX developers.

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Wrote the following at Feb. 13, 2013, 6:22 p.m...
SAQ wrote:
SGI was bankrupt, IRIS-4D MIPS was an obsoleted architecture, and they'd already reassigned/removed most of the IRIX developers.

Yup. Shoulda sold Irix to SciCortex for a million. Then SciCortex would have had applications and an operating system to run on their deskside O3900, so maybe people could have used the things.

Hell, a hundred thousand would have been more than they got for it. Or ever will. Greed is a wonderful thing, isn't it ?

@ Titox : before I brave the Oracle torture maze, does this come just in DVD form or do they have a CD version as well ?
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Wrote the following at Feb. 14, 2013, 12:08 a.m...
There is only DVD isos. And it are very BIG! (2.5 GB)

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Wrote the following at April 19, 2013, 12:03 a.m...
Titox wrote:
There is only DVD isos. And it are very BIG! (2.5 GB)


The very reason why IT folk commit mass homicide. Finding a compatible SCSI DVD ROM drive other than
Sh*tshiba*
Heck i recall buying the Solaris 9 box set with cds and DVDs... though the DVD not being bootable (even after upgrading Open Boot to 4.13.x) on the Blade 1k.. and now I'm tempted to install Openindiana grrr

edit: there is a work around for those who experience issues with the Toshiba DVDROM drives in the Blade 1000's . Firstly update OpenBoot , to the latest version possible (111292-17.zip Google it) Secondly, obtain the Toshiba 1401 DVD drive (Sun 390-0025) firmware.
Ensure that DVDs are written in compatibility mode, XA2, DAO and a maximum recording speed of 16x (DVD+R) (Used CDBurnerXP)

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