[not replying privately even though this is an old thread from back in the time when I was still enjoying a care-free summer vacation, and even though Grant and/or his mailer set "reply-to" to be his own address, not the list address, but because I'm still having rDNS issues and Grant's mailer won't let mine deliver to him...] At Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:27:59 -0600, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: Subject: Re: [TUHS] /bin vs /sbin > > Did Solaris follow in SunOS's foot steps? Or did Solaris do something > different? Note that "Solaris" is a marketing name for a whole OS package including the kernel, base system, user interface, and even some applications. On the other hand "SunOS" the name of the base system OS (i.e. kernel and userland). The name "SunOS" pre-dated the name "Solaris" but continues on as the name of the base OS within the Solaris package. E.g. from the Wikipedia Solaris article: "For example, Solaris 2.4 incorporates SunOS 5.4. After Solaris 2.6, the 2. was dropped from the release name, so Solaris 7 incorporates SunOS 5.7, and the latest release SunOS 5.11 forms the core of Solaris 11.4." and from the Wikipedia SunOS article: "Today, SunOS 5 is universally known as Solaris, although the SunOS name is still visible within the OS itself ¡V in the startup banner, the output of the uname command, and man page footers, among other places. Matching a SunOS 5.x release to its corresponding Solaris marketing name is simple: each Solaris release name includes its corresponding SunOS 5 minor version number. For example, Solaris 2.4 incorporated SunOS 5.4. There is one small twist: after Solaris 2.6, the "2." was dropped from the Solaris name and the SunOS minor number appears by itself. The latest Solaris release is named Solaris 11 and incorporates SunOS 5.11." Sun even back-pedaled and re-branded SunSO 4 as Solaris 1.0 before the switch from BSD to something Sun liked to think was akin to SVR4. -- Greg A. Woods Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack Planix, Inc. Avoncote Farms