[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

[Stephen Harris]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:45:47PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> with Irix mostly, through the early/mid-nineties). Solaris 6.3 == Sun 3;
> Solaris 6.4 was the next release, and was perfectly fine and solid.

There was no Solaris 6.3 or 6.4.  "Sun 3" was a hardware platform (pre
Sparc)!

The SysV variants went
  Solaris 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10,... splat

FWIW, the "Solaris" name started as a marketing thing as being the
OS plus window manager, or "Operating Environment".  SunOS 4 finally
got rebranded as Solaris 1.x; I still have "Solaris 1.1.1" which (from
the box) "contains both SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and OpenWindows Version 3_U1".
Solaris 2 was the SysV variant and has SunOS 5.x OS plus so, for example,
Solaris 2.4 had a 5.4 OS and kernel, plus other stuff (eg openwindows,
deskset etc etc).  You can still see it in "uname" output, today.

Solaris 2.4 was mostly stable (I hit a few mbuf issues on Netra 5's).
Solaris 2.5.1 ran pretty well (I used it on Ultra 1 and Ultra 1+ machines,
then Ultra 2's).  Solaris 2.6 worked well.  Solaris 7 was a disaster.
Solaris 8 was very stable.  Solaris 9 I kinda skipped.  Solaris 10 was
too little, too late.

(In my basement I have Solaris 1.1.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; all
but 2.5.1 are original in-box distributions)

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rgds
Stephen