Re: Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-08 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:26:37 EDT "Matthew J. Brodeur" said: >On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What do mean by that? Solaris is still on 2.x, 2.9 just got released? >> >> (Remember, it's only the output of 'uname' that matters, since we >> tech weenies never pa

Re: Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-07 Thread John Abreau
Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, unless Sun plans on having 'uname -r' return 5.99 or some such > nonsense, there is little choice. And six probably isn't the best SunOS 5.99 would be a long way off, in any case. The next release after 5.9 would be 5.10. Remember, this is not

Re: Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 20:36, John Abreau wrote: > "Matthew J. Brodeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps > > to 6.x? > > The move from SunOS 4.x to SunOS 5.x was the switch from a BSD system > to a SYSV system. So what f

Re: Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-07 Thread John Abreau
"Matthew J. Brodeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps > to 6.x? The move from SunOS 4.x to SunOS 5.x was the switch from a BSD system to a SYSV system. So what fundamental architectural change would justify a switch from 5

Re: Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
"Matthew J. Brodeur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps > to 6.x? Linux? (-: --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) alumni.unh.edu!kdc

Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

2002-10-07 Thread Matthew J. Brodeur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do mean by that? Solaris is still on 2.x, 2.9 just got released? > > (Remember, it's only the output of 'uname' that matters, since we > tech weenies never pay attention to marketing efforts ;)