Sun release source code for Solaris 8

[emanuel stiebler]

----- Original Message -----
From: Arno Griffioen <arno at usn.nl>
To: <wkt at cs.adfa.edu.au>
Cc: <pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 03:24
Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8


> > Currently out of town. Still, it might be worth asking SCO for a
discount!
> > Does the license cover all of Solaris, or just the kernel??
>
> Just wondering, but...
>
> How would you build it? Or does Sun now package a (free) dev-kit with
> Solaris-8? So far has the dev-kit for Solaris not been very cheap..
>
> Or (oh irony!) do I first need to install *BSD or Linux on a box and build
> it there? ;-)

You got this exactly right ;-)

You install *BSD on your system, compile a new kernel & world, just for
testing, and WHUPS, you don't care anymore about Slowlaris ;-)

Cheers & have fun,
emanuel