[Sunhelp] Solaris Version Preferance

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:30:45PM -0400, Scott Walker wrote:
> What are your preferances in terms of Solaris?
> >From what I've heard
> 2.6 = Ultra Stable, Run this is you want stability
> 7 = Nice update, but pretty unstable
> 8 = Fix cause 7 was so bad?
> Anyone else have any input?.

On Sun4c hardware, run 2.5.1 (fully patched).  It was the best
(most stable, most proven) release for non-64-bit hardware.  For
Sun4u stuff, run sol8 in 64-bit mode.

(I know of TONS of sites that still run 2.5.1 because there's
simply no reason to upgrade at all...)

Bill

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