Sun Microsystems Inc.
Local Sun resources
Our web pages
- Keeping A Sun Up To Date
- Installing a System Package
- Installing the Sun Compilers
- Applying the recommended patch bundle
- Checking a system against available patches
- Sun's current compiler documentation (v5.0)
- Sun's documentation for the previous version of their compiler suite (v4.0)
Maintenance & licensing
The Computing Service has a single, large maintenance contract with Sun for the whole University and its related institutions. Maintenance bought through this contract gains a bulk discount in addition to the academic discount.
For financial details of signing up to this deal, please contact
the CS Sales
Group at
sales@ucs.cam.ac.uk.
Furthermore, the CS funds an EduSoft licence. As a result any Sun (except those in admin.cam.ac.uk) is entitled to licence the Sun compiler suite and some other software at no additional charge.
Patches
Sun makes its recommended patches and security patches freely available and Unix Support mirrors these locally for ease of access. You do not need to have maintenance on your system to access or to apply these patches. (You do need maintenance on a system to access or to install the other patches.)
See the pages on Keeping A Sun Up To Date for details of accessing and applying these patches.
Restricted Access Software
Unix Support makes available copies of all the operating system, documentation and compiler CDs together with any CDs copackaged with the above. Currently these are exported by NFS to the entire university, although *.admin.cam.ac.uk are not covered by our licence.
It is not possible to perform a network installation or upgrade of the operating system without some extra infrastructure (called "Jumpstart"). If you need to install or upgrade you can borrow the CDs from us or take the ISO images and write your own copies of the CDs. If you need to borrow the CDs please e-mail us for these. We can leave the CDs for you to be collected at the CS Reception.
Application software (including the compilers) and individual operating system packages can be installed over the network from the NFS server. See the pages on Installing a System Package and Installing the Sun Compilers for technical details on installing this software.
Other Sun Resources
- Sun's main web site.
- Sun's UK web site. NB: Not a UK mirror of the USA web site.
- Some free software for use on Suns.
- Our mirror of the sunfreeware archive.
- Esteem and Q Associates Limited, the local Sun academic resellers.
- On-line Sun documentation.
- On-line Sun man pages for Solaris 9.
- On-line Sun man pages for Solaris 8.
- On-line Sun man pages for Solaris 7.
- UK customer educational services
- transtec UK, a supplier of Sun clone parts. Note that these will not be covered by Sun's maintenance deal and separate arrangements will need to be made with transtec.
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