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

[John Abreau]

"Matthew J. Brodeur" <mbrodeur at NextTime.com> writes:

>    The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps
> to 6.x?

The move from SunOS 4.x to SunOS 5.x was the switch from a BSD system 
to a SYSV system. So what fundamental architectural change would justify 
a switch from 5.x to 6.x? A new kernel based on Linux, or Mach, or Hurd?
I haven't heard of any such plans from Sun.


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