[Sunhelp] SUN OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6

Han, SangBeom sbhan at os.korea.ac.kr
Fri Jul 23 08:59:18 CDT 1999


Refering to Sun FAQ, Solaris is OS Package and SunOS is only OS.
That is, Solaris = SunOS + Solstice + NIS Package + .. etc. 

"morgan .g" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sun OS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6 are the same.
> For what i know, Sun kept the name SunOS 5 or 4 for historical/emotional
> reasons in UNIX flavours. As in System IV(4) and System V(5), just to add
> that Solaris 2.X is actually system IV.So don't get too alarmed about it.
> 
> cheers
> 
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