Re: W32.Winux virus on Linux machines

[Biju Chacko <biju@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:39:40PM +0530, Kingsly John wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
>  |Most commercial unices (SCO and Solaris at least, to my knowledge) _are_
>  |available for the x86 platform.  Solaris 8 is freeware on the x86 platform I
>  |believe (only the cost of the media - ~ $70).
> 
> Is it freely copiable then ?? and will it run on a pIII - 733Mhz ??
> (remember reading that it will only run on a Xeon or merced)

It'll run alright. But the media is _not_ copiable. And if I understood the
license correctly, if you happen to *look* at the media then Sun Microsystems
owns your immortal soul which they will dispose of at their convenience. ;-)

It is available from GT for about Rs 4K.

Installing it is a bitch... Shanu tried and succeeded, but at the cost of losing
all his other OSes -- at which point he had no idea what to _do_ with it, so he
deleted it and started the long process of reinstalling his other OSes.

It was the first installer I've seen that makes the _FreeBSD_ install look
intuitive!

Biju



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