[9052] in bugtraq
Solaris 7 naming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Isaac)
Wed Jan 13 15:17:08 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:54:28 -0500
Reply-To: Isaac <isaac@CALVIN.CS.QC.EDU>
From: Isaac <isaac@CALVIN.CS.QC.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19990112085304.A29041@underground.org>
While there were discussions of solaris 7 really being Sunos 5.7.... just
wanted to clear some things up:
According to SMI, Solaris 7 is really an operating environment which
consists of:
SunOS 5.7 (which was preserved in 'uname' and other system calls so that
shell / app wrappers don't break as users upgrade from previous vers.)
CDE (Common Desktop Environment)
ONC (Open network computing) + RPC protocol set for networking.
There were a lot of neat things introduced with Solaris 7, such as
multiple library support (32 vs. 64), Dynamic Reconfiguration, etc.
Check out Solaris whitepapers at sun.com
Regards,
Isaac
