[Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

[David Holland]

Has Oracle changed its position with regards to patch availability for
the freely available downloads of Solaris x86?

Last I heard, patches were not available with out a support contract.

( Granted, HP is no better with its position towards VMS patches, but
at least (last I checked) VMS wasn't terribly attractive option for
the script kiddies. )

Unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want a free (as in beer)
patched Unix-alike, your choices are a Linux based distribution, or a
Linux based distribution. Which is unfortunate.

Here's hoping someone will set out to prove me wrong.   :-)

David


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> Solaris also runs on SPARC. I have it running here on that. And yes
> sadly Intel based Solaris is still a performance hog.
>
> But its nice to know someone else is out there. Welcome to the party
> Gary Lee Phillips.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Gary Lee Phillips
> <tivo.overo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've
>> tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power
>> and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it
>> shares with most Linux distributions.)
>>
>> I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX
>> or Alpha hardware platforms.
>>
>> On 7/12/15, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
>>>
>>>> El 12/07/2015, a les 13:52, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com> va
>>>> escriure:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I keep looking for a way to get a "real" UNIX going, hence the ULTRIX
>>>> experiment. As far as I can tell, neither Tru64 nor HP-UX have any
>>>
>>> Wouln’t solaris qualify as a “real” UNIX?
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