[SunHELP] solaris 2.6/sunos 5.6

[Rob Staab]

Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6
Solaris 7 = SunOS 5.7
Solaris 8 = SunOS 2.8

Sun just decided on a strange naming convention recently. Solaris was
created when SunOS was redone and OpenWindows was added to the base
installation.

- Rob Staab

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Fabio Andres Miranda
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 7:06 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] solaris 2.6/sunos 5.6
>
>
> hi, I have never worked on sun's, just open source (freebsd/debian), but
> now i got a new job as a sys admin, it's a sparc with sunos 5.6...
> OK, i read a document about differences between sunos and solaris, it
> says, sunos 4.x and solaris 1.x are sun BSD unix and sunos 5.x and
> solaris 2.x are system v4 sun unices.
> I would like to know if SunOS 5.6 and Solaris 2.6 are the same thing
> with different names or are two differents enviroment.
> I'm not enligh speaker, please, some one explain me it basic, i think
> i'm confused in a marketing estrategy of sun's :=)....
>
>
> regards,
>
>
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