From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 17 01:15:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA28547 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA28538 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id KAA08418; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:00:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA17130; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970917094921.27123@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:49:21 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Chuck Robey Cc: Annelise Anderson , Paul Griffith , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed - Unix System Admin References: <19970916225558.19575@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 08:33:43PM -0400 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-970911-SNAP SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 04:15:50PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > > > Actually, so does Sun's Solaris, I think, the X86 version. It's cheap, > > > and it comes closer even than Linux. Sorta depends on a student's budget > > > ... you ever heard of a student with enough cash to spend? > > > > Sun gives away Solaris 2.x *sources* for copy costs, about $100. > > So shouldn't it be possible, that a student gets a binary release ? > > No. That offer of Sun's was bogus, I _am_ a student, I tried, they told > me I would have to get it thru the University. If the university of > Maryland wouldn't buy it for me (fat chance) then, no. I think the University would have to sign something like a non disclosure. But what's the problem. Give the university the $100 and they should buy it for your research ;-)) -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html