Comments on: Sun releases Solaris 10 for free

The server and software company begins offering Solaris 10 as a free download for those who register.

[kmguru]

SUN Solaris Open-source

Smart move. Just give it to the Indian and Chinese Community and watch what happens. But, Sun should setup a point person to coordinate all those activities.

[johnzoet]

Sun should use bittorent for dowloading ISO images.

The download speed of the Solaris ISO images
ranges between stalled (most of the time) and
10KB/s (kilo byte per second).
When I download Mandrake with bittorent I get a
download speed of around 240KB/s.

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Funny......

I always love to see SUN's CEO yapping and complaining about how the company cannot make money. And now it decides to give things away for free? Nice move.

indeed

i notice that trying to download the "educational edition" of the developers tools from microsoft.com often seems to go at about the same 0-10 kbps rate, versus 200K/s + on windowsupdate.com ...

perhaps this is these corporations way of letting us know what they really think of free software :-)