From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 08:20:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA28977 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA28933 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05115; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:19:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611061619.KAA05115@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: SunOS and Solaris? To: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:19:46 -0600 (CST) Cc: sln@public.jn.sd.cn, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9611061438.AA09505@mail.kcwc.com> from Curt Welch at "Nov 6, 96 09:38:50 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Curt Welch said: > > My question is: What's the difference between Sun's SunOS > > and Solaris. > > customers complained that they decided they would continue > supporting SunOS and continue producing new versions of SunOS > to support new Sun hardware. But other than hardware support UltraSparcs can not run SunOS 4.1.x. The 4.1.x version is in support mode only. Solaris 2.5 is a reasonable platform to use. Yes, it is different from BSD. > (or at least I think that's how the numbers work). The "Solaris" > name actually started being used before the switch to the > System V based kernel. Not exactly, it was a retro-active rename for Marketing purposes, as I stated before. > As far as the differences between BSD and Systems V, that's > simple. System V sucks and BSD doesn't. :) I do perfer BSD, but SVR4 is light-years ahead of SVR3 and earlier. Solaris ain't bad, just some of the tools. (ps most notably and the bizarre tty management). -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030