RE: Solaris Release Vs. Version

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:02:50 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00356FD1.20010727045614@fatcity.com>

There is probably something wrong or it is truly 2.7.

2.6 is Version 6 of Solaris
2.7 is Version 7 of Solaris

They are completely different versions. Nothing about them is similar in terms of release.

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:11 AM
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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