begin quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:28:25AM -0500: > > Yeah; that was a very funny time. Too bad NT5 was renamed to Win2000 and > announced just ONE DAY before the fantastic announcement of Solaris 7, > the Operating System Rushed Out The Door In Time To Have A Higher > Revision Number Than That Crap From Microsoft (but not in time to be > complete, which is why 8 came out so soon after without even an attempt > at 7.1). There were a *lot* of people at Sun who were pissed off!
There won't be any .1 releases, because "Solaris 8" is a marketing term for an environment that includes SunOS 5.8. Technically, the OS is SunOS 5.8. Sun marketting doesn't use that name, however, because they don't refer to the OS, only to the environment. Similarly for Solaris 7. That's why Solaris 9 is about to come out, with no 8.1. However, you are correct that 7 sucked. :-) Think of it as like a Linux distribution. Linux is the OS, RedHat or Debian is the distribution. Saying "Solaris" is like saying "Debian", only slower and less free. :-)
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