Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> What do mean by that?  Solaris is still on 2.x, 2.9 just got released?
> 
> (Remember, it's only the output of 'uname' that matters, since we 
> tech weenies never pay attention to marketing efforts ;)

   Since we're being picky here, I get to tell you you're wrong.

bash-2.05# uname -sr
SunOS 5.7
bash-2.05# uname -a
SunOS idoru 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

   There is no such thing as Solaris 2.x where x>6.  SunOS 5.7 is the 
kernel for Solaris 7.  SunOS 5.8 and 5.9 go with Solaris 8 and 9, 
respectively.  Not that this matters much, since I can't find any place 
other than the CDE splash screen that mentions Solaris on a running 
system.  In effect, Solaris _IS_ just a marketing name.
   The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps 
to 6.x?

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Matthew J. Brodeur                                             RHCE, GSEC
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                             http://www.NextTime.com

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