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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Solaris Release Vs. Version
Hmm. The background is, there was an operating system called SunOS, derived from BSD. This is the OS used on early Sun kit, even back before they used the SPARC processor, they were using the 68020.
Eventually, two things happened. The first was moving to SVR4, the second was OpenWindows. So SunOS 4.x was Solaris 1.x if you had OpenWindows. SunOS 5.x is Solaris 2.x. (Incidentally, the first shipping version of NT was 3.1, even tho' it shared no code it had the same GUI as Windows 3.1).
Then, when Microsoft were planning to call their next OS "NT5", the marketing drones at Sun thought, hey, we better have a higher version number than them. So they renamed Solaris 2.7 (aka SunOS 5.7) to "Solaris 7". (I believe Sybase did something similar when they jumped to System 10). Solaris 7 and 8 are definite improvements over Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6, but not nearly enough to warrant jumping entire version numbers.
Presumably, the engineers at Sun, who actually use version numbers to track versions of things numerically (!), want no part of this nonsense, and insist on maintaining SunOS numbers in the code.
If your server can't decide whether it's 5.6 or 5.7, there's probably something wrong, like a half installed upgrade.
HTH, g
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:11 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
hi dba's
can any body tell me the difference between the release and version of Sun solaris.
i am working on solaris platform.
when i login to the server, i get prompt Sun 5.7
where the version is 2.6
what is the difference between these 2?
prasad.
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