How can I get a "free" copy of Solaris?
A "free" copy of Solaris (where "free" means thelicense is free--you pay only media, shipping, and handling cost),
is available from here:
For *.edu (Educational users):
http://www.Sun.COM/edu/solaris/
For all others:
http://www.Sun.COM/developers/tools/solaris/
I also have this link:
http://www.Sun.COM/solaris/freesolaris.html
For Solaris 8,
the cost is US$75 for the media kit (CDROMs).
This includes Solaris software, StarOffice 5.1, iPlanet, Netscape, Oracle8i,
AnswerBook documentation, and a CD with a lot of GNU and other
open source software.
You can now (2/2001) download Solaris iso (CD) images for "free,"
without even paying media costs.
The three iso images are about 800MB and are compressed with pkzip.
See
http://www.Sun.COM/intel/
for details.
The download version includes everything but the Oracle CD,
the Open Source "Software Companion" CD, and the
StarOffice CD (the latter is available for download separately though).
If you download and have problems, make sure you download in "binary" mode
(check that the file size matches exactly).
Some CD burning software (especially for Windoze) requires the downloaded
files be renamed to have a ".iso" extension.
I recommend using "Easy CD Creator"
software if you are using Windows machines
(see
http://www.roxio.com/ )
For Solaris and other flavors of UNIX,
several CD burning utilities are available, such as cdrecord (CLI)
at
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/,
BurnIt (Java GUI front end to cdrecord) at
http://sunsite.dk/BurnIT/,
or X-CD-Roast (Linux GUI) at
http://www.xcdroast.org/
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