Expert: Kenneth Gullberg Date: 10/19/2000 Subject: Sun Solaris
Question what is the difference between solaris 2.6 and SunOS 5.6?
Answer Hi!
There is no difference, Solaris 2.6 is the product name. SunOS is for historical reasons, before solaris was a product name everything was called SunOS, when someone say SunOS they usually mean solaris 1.x, which in fact was SunOS 4.x. So basically they have kept SunOS 5.6 for script compability reasons.
SunOS 4.x = Solaris 1.x
SunOS 5.5 = Solaris 2.5
SunOS 5.6 = Solaris 2.6
SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 7
SunOS 5.8 = Solaris 8
