Solaris versioning 4

[nychris]

Can someone give me a quick overview of the versioning scheme with Solaris? They go from 2.8 to 7, and then 8, 9, 10. What happened to 3-6? Also, whats up with SunOS? Is SunOS the same thing as Solaris?

Thanks,

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Chris
RHCE, LPIC, CNE, CCNA, MCSE (+11 others)

 

[bfitzmai]

Here you go Chris... Doesn't include Solaris 9 and 10 but you will get the picture.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/solaris/versions/

 

[nychris]

So does this mean that SunOS 5.8 and Solaris 8.0 are the same exact thing? Does Sun sell SunOS 5.8 as well as Solaris 8, or when you install Solaris 8 it might say SunOS 5.8 somewhere inside, for example? Does that make sense? I'm looking through some of the Sun media kits we have here and I only see Solaris CDs, no SunOS CDs while we are running servers that say they are SunOS.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[bfitzmai]

SunOS 5.8 and Solaris 8 are the same. Why they keep both version names, only the Solaris gurus would know.

Thank-you for the Star...

Bruce

 

[nychris]

Do they actually sell SunOS 5.8 media kits, or only Solaris 8? I think that it just says SunOS 5.8 in certain places after you install Solaris 8, correct?

Are there equivalent SunOS versions for Solaris 9 and 10, or did they stop that?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[bfitzmai]

I am running machines with Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 9... I don't recall any documentation that call out SunOS. I can only assume that there are version references to SunOS 5.9 and SunOS 5.10.

Bruce

 

[KenCunningham]

Wasn't SunOS the base operating system, and Solaris the full bells-and-whistles versioning?

 

[daFranze]

Sun Decided to go from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7 since other competitors released OSes and Software with very high release numbers; marketing thought customers may think "Sun is far behind with there development", this is, why they dropped "2." inbetween Solaris and the releasenumber.

It is more or less like Ken says: the SunOS 5.8 is the Name und Number of the "Operating System", Solaris 8 is the Name and Number of the "Operating Environment"

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[nychris]

When you purchase the OS, all of the media kits (CDs, box, and documentation) say Solaris on it and not SunOS, correct? Even the older versions 2.x.

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Chris
RHCE, LPIC, CNE, CCNA, MCSE (+11 others)

 

[spamly]

Sun Decided to go from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7 since other competitors released OSes and Software with very high release numbers

Another reason why they jumped from 2.6 to 7 was because they introduced a 64bit OS. At the time, this was the major selling point for OS. Overall, 7 isn't too much different than 6.

 

[nychris]

Another reason why they jumped from 2.6 to 7 was because they introduced a 64bit OS

Are all the new Solaris machines 64-bit? Will they run on 32-bit hardware? I know the x86 will, but not sure of the SPARC hardware?

 

[bfitzmai]

Yes nychris... 32 Bit hardware will run.

 

[achech]

Sun delivery both 32/64-bit kernel tegother, check your boot command:

32-bit SPARC and IA
/platform/platform-name/kernel/unix
default program to boot system.

64-bit SPARC only
/platform/platform-name/kernel/sparcv9/unix
default program to boot system.

See NOTES section "Booting UltraSPARC Systems."


SunOS is "internal name" of the Solaris, you'll see the answer by this command "uname -a" on your system.


Cheers,

Achech

 

[daFranze]

running kernel: isainfo -k
sparcv9 -> 64 bit kernel running
sparc -> 32 bit kernel running

Best Regards, Franz
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Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years