On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:29:07 -0500, Hillel Lubman <shtetldik at gmail.com> wrote: > I see, thanks for clarification. So why didn't kernel name change from > SunOS to Solaris when Sun rebranded the operating system? > > Hillel.
Branding should not change application interfaces, and the kernel name is certainly part of the core API and ABI. Likewise, the current release string is "5.11", not "11" (and certainly not "NEXT" ;P ) and was "5.6" back when the OS was "Solaris 2.6". -Albert
