[Sunhelp] Difference between 2.6 and 2.7

Paul Power Paul.Power at dubexch01.cognotec.com
Fri Feb 11 09:46:30 CST 2000


 The main difference is that it moved to 64bit which in turn means 
 more scalability (ie: more concurrent threads, processes, open 
 files etc )
 Take a look at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/openviron/ 

 cheers,
 
 P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Kennedy [SMTP:jkennedy at orent.com]
> Sent:	11 February 2000 15:36
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Difference between 2.6 and 2.7
> 
> William Ng wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all
> > Does anyone know what is the difference between 2.6 and 2.7, such as
> > command diffence, or anything else?
> > Thanks for all help
> > 
> > William
> > 
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> Most all of the differences won't be seen by the user (i.e. journeled
> file system to speed up fsck from crash)
> The 2 commands that Sun added were pgrep which is a shortened version of
> the ps -ef | grep 'process' and pkill which does the same as ps -ef |
> grep 'process'/kill PID combo.
> Everything else is the same...
> John
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