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A customer of mine is still using Solaris 8, now I have a product which requires testing against this OS, however looking at Oracle, they merely provide 10 and 11. Is it possible to find Solaris 8 for download (x86) still? Or is it a lost cause?

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Solaris 8 was last shipped on February 16, 2007. You can only get patches for it until end of march 2012 after which it will reach its end of service life.

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Alright, so not even a test/development version is available anywhere? – Anders Nov 15 '11 at 13:40
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Mmm, thanks. Now I shall go sailing into a bay or something. – Anders Nov 15 '11 at 13:55
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You would need a valid developer account and/or maintenance agreement with Oracle. I do not believe those are free.

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Solaris 8 was only released for the SPARC architecture. Your best bet is to contact Oracle and see if they will sell you any CDs. You should be able to pick up a SPARC machine capable of running Solaris 8 on the second user market. For software package etc there is always sunfreeware.com.

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Solaris 8 was definitely released for both SPARC and x86. From Solaris 2.2 onward, the source code was unified and both SPARC and x86 architecture were supported and released. Only Solaris 9 was released a little later for x86 than SPARC but that was the only incident. – jlliagre Nov 15 '11 at 13:44
Thanks for educating me. I only used SPARCs till 10 came out. I do recall an early version of 2.x for x86 but (obviously incorrectly) though that it was dropped early on. – Iain♦ Nov 15 '11 at 13:50
@jlliagre: I don't suppose you can help with this can you ? – Iain♦ Nov 15 '11 at 14:47
I'm afraid I can't. I have no experience with these. – jlliagre Nov 15 '11 at 21:14
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