News Sun offers free Solaris 8/9 OE on DVD By - May 29, 2002 13 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppLinkedinReddItEmail According to The Register, Sun’s giving away free copies of Solaris (8 if you’re on Intel, 9 if you’re not), and they don’t miss the irony of that compared with the recent switch from free as in beer StarOffice.