Is Solaris 10 free?

Several months ago, near all software products from Sun, had the word free
Now, anyone of these products doesn't show the word free.
If I buy a dell Server, can I download Solaris 10, install it, and use it comercially.
Reading the entitlement, it isn't clear to me that the Solaris 10 is free.
The doument is: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17

Hello,
it's indeed vey confusing.
To obtain patches (even security) or use Solaris commercially a Support Contract is required.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/policies.xml
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/sla.xml
This is a quote from the first link:
"In order to use the Solaris operating system for perpetual commercial use, each system running Solaris must be expressly licensed to do so. An Entitlement Document comprises such license and is delivered to you either with a new Sun system or from Sun Services as part of your service agreement. Customers who did not receive an Entitlement Document with their new Sun system or through their service agreement must register each system running Solaris with Sun."
The last time this Entitlement Document was sent after the download, was when Solaris 10 3/05 (GA) was released.
Without registering a system, the Sun Update Manager (SUM) didn't allow to download patches. This means if you ever used SUM (without a Patch Proxy) your system is registered. Now a Sun Online Account without a service contract isn't suficient to download patches.
I'm not aware of any press release for these license changes.
Michael

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We checked the file system. We are not using zfs but we are using ufs.
# fstyp /dev/md/dsk/d1
ufs
More over:
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New to solaris what should I be downloading solaris 10 or opensolaris?

well I have some experience with redhat but want to learn solaris as, well I really will never be able to get a linux/unix position if I only know one. hmm so I started looking around and got confused by the many versions now available of solaris. so after bout an hour is seems like...
1) the solaris 10 os is released for free
2) there are multiple solaris's based off this code but the one solaris is pushing is the opensolaris 2008.05.
in my mind I figure that solaris loosely relates to redhat then and opensolaris loosely relates to fedora.
so here are my questions.
I see solaris is "free" but I can't figure out exactly what that means. I know for instance that me sitting at home at night learning will not be able to call or email sun for support (too bad that would be sweet). but once installed can I get applications, use the sun software installation system (whatever would be like yum to redhat) to get software, will it be from a repo sponsored by sun? also how would I update the system. for instance I see a new version of solairs will be out in late october. do I have to do a complete reinstall or can I just plop in a new cd and hit "upgrade" (or something of that nature). basically I guess I am saying what am I missing by getting solaris free without support. is it just tech support or is it updates and software.
secondly, would opensolaris be a better option. the reason I am apprehensive is because based on some reviews I have read it is not supported by much hardware and is buggy. I really don't want to waist time downloading and installing this if regular old solaris 10 is the better option. thanks you much for helping a newbie out. I have a seconds pc waiting for this and remember it is basically so I can get up to speed so my solaris unix will be on par with my quite limited linux experience. thanks again...

I see so>night learning will not be able to call or email sun for support (too bad that would be sweet). but once installed can I get applications, use the sun software installation system (whatever would be like yum to redhat) to get software, will it be from a repo sponsored by sun?Depends. With Solaris you can use the Solaris Companion CD to get a few of the more generic programs or you can use sites such as Blastwave, SunFreeWare, Package Archive etc... to add more software of you can always compile from source.
OpenSolaris has a pkg install command which is analogous to yum and contains a lot more software then the Solaris Companion CD. If you hunt around you can get a list of all software that pkg install can install to your system.
also how would I update the system. for instance I see a new version of solairs will be out in late october. do I have to do a complete reinstall or can I just plop in a new cd and hit "upgrade" (or something of that nature). basically I Plop in the DVD and hit "upgrade" or you can do fancy things like live upgrade if you plan in advance.
guess I am saying what am I missing by getting solaris free without support. is it just tech support or is it updates and software. Patches that aren't labeled as critical or security, phone support, etc... are not part of "free" Solaris.
secondly, would opensolaris be a better option. the reason I am apprehensive is because based on some reviews I have read it is not supported by much hardware and is buggy. There is a device detection tool that can be used for either OS so you can see in advance if your hardware is probably supported. OpenSolaris contains programs that are generally more current then those that are offered by Solaris.
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How do you install Sun Trunking package on Solaris 10? Is it on the Solaris 10 CD? Looks like the Sun Trunking 1.3 download is just an update. The default install did not install the package.

SunTrunking is not part of any version of Solaris.
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exists a control panel similar YAST of SuSE Linux or control panel of Mandriva ecc...?
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Are Solaris Patches ONLY available for a fee?

I have tried repeatedly to get Patch Manager for Solaris 9, which we're running on a brand new V240. The application we purchased it for is not yet certified to be binary compatible with SOL 10, so we were forced to go back to SOL9.
SunSolve makes PatchManager and PatchPro available for free download to Solaris 8 users. Update Connection is available to Solaris 10 users. Solaris 9 users seem to be in a position to pay for a service plan to get updates.
We purcased 2 Sun Servers at the same time. The x86 server is running Linux, which we have no trouble getting free updates for, particularly security updates.
I'm thinking that maybe I need to switch our Sun SPARC server to OpenSolaris to get the same kind of benefits we are used to with Linux.
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Thanks!
John

After being told by many people in these forums that I could get the PatchManager and patches here for free, and going thru much frustration trying, I called the school's local Sun dealer.
The Sun dealer told me that since Sun released Solaris for FREE download, Sun is requiring a support contract to get updates and patches. Basically, the support contracts pay for the "FREE" O/S.
The Sun web pages kept insisting I have a support contract, so what the Sun dealer told me concurs with what I ran into on here.
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Intel boot cd Solaris 8

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status messages (because you've booted with verbose "-v"
kernel messages).
Hmm, it has detected your IDE harddisc (SAMSUNG, 6.5GB)
as the slave device on the primary IDE channel (there were
probably more messages before that SAMSUNG hard disc
where it recognized the master device on the primary IDE
channel; there is a device connected as master on the
primary ide channel, right?).
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channel? (probably not, otherwise it would appear
before the "PCI-device: ide@1, ata1" line).
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SCSI controllers. Do you have any SCSI controllers in that
system? (It might hang probing for some SCSI controller)
Assuming there are no SCSI controllers, the next step
of the kernel would probably to look for disk drives on each
of the disk controllers. (So, it might hang talking to your
IDE hard disc drives)
Is the HDD LED active when the system is frozen?
Perhaps you get some real error messages when you wait a
minute or two?
If you temporarily remove the power connector from both of
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Solaris 10 - price

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Thanks for the reply.
I am looking for one which is licensed under an open source license too.
I believe both
Solaris 10 (free to download and use) and
Express Solaris
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enter Service Plan. But I am not sure which Service plan I should enter . Can any body help me ?
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Any help will be appriciated.
P.S: does anybody know whether a MSA 1000 will work with Sun Cluster 3.2.
Regards

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JES 2005Q4 Windows release date?

I see the JES 2005Q4 documentation is up for the Windows Server platform. Although in BETA.
Currently evaluating JES 2005Q1 for migrating system from Messaging Server 5.2p2 (also on Windows platform).
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Eli

Jay,
as always... your input is paramount and very
welcome.
If JES2005Q1 was an experiment... why release it
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seat prices for defective software? It's like buying
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Plenty of time to recheck and update both the
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>
If JES2005Q1 was an experiment for the Windows
environment... what assurances do I have as a
customer in the Windows environment that Sun will
continue to develop code and technology for that
platform?Sales rep.
See my dilemma? (Note: I cannot introduce a new
Operating System platform in my infrastructure. This
would make the mailserver in itself more expensive
than any server on the Windows platform. Pure by
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>
It's a bad thing to have documentation being written
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Hasty work is never done....Please show that to the sales rep.
>
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I don't know if any US (from headoffice) Sun
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>
Ending this ranting, cause I am saving the rest for
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i am using iplanet messaging server 5.2 patch 2 on windows 2003 Server. Please help me how can i run the following commands
-imsbackup
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-reconstruct
from dos prompt. These are very important commands without them i am not able to take backup, maintanance & recovery on windows system.
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Thanx a lot jay for this information. actually i am a
new user of Iplanet in Windows plateform. i found
all utilities (.exe) in these folders
server-root/bin/msg/admin/bin
and
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>
Can i use iPlanet Console for taking backup of all
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>
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>
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David,
Please send your question to [email protected]
Thank you,
tom

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