[plug] See how the other half live

[Ian Kent]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote:

>They've announced that Solaris for Intel/Sparc will become gratis for
>personal/educational use.

It's not very different to other Unix's. 

>No source code, but still a nice opportunity and learning experience for those
>of us with the hard-drive space.

But you still have to get your GNU utilities. The first thing you will want to
get is GCC since there is not C compiler with the base distribution.

>I think this is good news for the linux world, even if, ostensibly, it is a
>direct move to compete against Linux.

Yes

>
>-Greg