From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 06:22:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3252B16A4E2 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C59543D67 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:22:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G7ne2-0004Lk-JU; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:22:22 -0600 In-Reply-To: <002901c6b531$b4013200$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org><87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org><20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org><44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org><44CDAA98.3030702@freebsd.org> <44CDE02F.4090604@dial.pipex.com><44CE7DD0.9070902@childeric.freeserve.co.uk><871ws1v261.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060731220830.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> <002901c6b531$b4013200$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3B884B70-CCF2-4131-B65B-E022254FC965@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 00:22:22 -0600 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:22:24 -0000 On Aug 1, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Sun's compiler and > some other > programs of theirs are serialized and when you buy them you have to > send in > the > cpu serial number to Sun who generates a key that will only allow the > compiler > to run on that system. If you move the compiler you have to get > another key > and > certify to Sun with a legal document that you will not run it on > the old > system, etc. > > At least that was how it worked last I dealt with that about 7 > years ago. That aspect has probably changed now since Solaris 10 is free as are the dev tools... (Sun Studio) They have open sourced solaris and some of the more interesting things are supposedly being ported to FreeBSD. Dtrace (we have had announcements of that here) and also ZFS! (which is way cool -- I am implementing a Solaris ZFS based server to do nfs file system sharing to my FreeBSD machines). Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net