Solaris 2.8.1 ??? (was Re: [rescue] Which is better?)

[G W Adkins]

Maybe it should be 2.8.1 instead of 2.9?

Anybody know if the DNS on the same subnet issue is one of the things being
fixed?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at tmok.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Which is better?


> > - - If one were to troll the archives, one would find similar statements
from
> > different periods referring to varying versions of Solaris, with the
version
> > number increasing.
>
> 2.3 -> anything else. :)
>
> > - - Said speed increases are real, and due to one or both of two
factors:
> >         The code actually got faster OR
>
> i truely believe this (without any supporting evidence)
>
> >         The disks got reformatted, and all the cruft and fragmentation
was
> >                 cleared.
>
> to help lend credability to the speculations, the install of 7 was done a
couple
> of weeks earlier, and not much disk usage, so consider it a fresh install
of 7
> versus a fresh install of 8.
>
> > Anybody else got any wild  theories?
>
> Sun seems to pull their heads out of their butt every once in a while and
get
> it mostly right (see 2.5.1 as an example) so maybe 8 is just another one
of
> thoses cases.
>
> even more interesting, is 9 seems to have very few features added to it
and
> those features that it does seem to have, tend to be "drop in" features
(like
> adding ssh to the base install) so i hope they spent all that time
tweaking
> what they already have in an attempt to make Solaris rule.
>
> -brian
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