In a message dated: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:31:06 EST
John Abreau said:
>As I recall seeing in Sun's documentation when they first brought out
>Solaris back in the mid-1980's,
Pedantic nit-picking here.
Solaris didn't come out until the early-mid 1990s. Prior to that it
was known as SunOS. With the release of Solaris, they retroactively
re-named SunOS to Solaris 1.x and the OS Solaris 2.x. Sun's naming
convention therefore, follows thusly:
SunOS < 4.x is known as SunOS
SunOS 4.x and up is *also* known as Solaris 1.x
Solaris 2.x is *also* known as SunOS 5.x
Solaris 2.8 is *also* known as: SunOS 5.8
Solaris 8
IMNSHO, the only number that matters is what 'uname -sr' returns.
In ALL cases with Sun operating systems, it -s will return 'SunOS',
and -r will return a reasonable number for that command.
(unless their marketing group has since won this ridiculous game
and engineering has caved in :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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