27 Jan
2021
27 Jan
'21
7:06 p.m.
On 1/26/21 10:56 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
[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,
<thumbs up>
and even though Grant and/or his mailer set
"reply-to" to be his
own address, not the list address,
It's not me or my mailer setting the Reply-To:. It seems as if the
mailing list is setting that on senders who's domain uses DMARC, which
mine does.
but because I'm still having rDNS issues and
Grant's mailer won't
let mine deliver to him...]
I've added central... to my hosts file, so hopefully you can email me
directly if you want to.
Note that "Solaris" is a marketing name for
a whole OS package
including the kernel, base system, user interface, and even some
applications.
<head tilt>
That's ... a different explanation than I've heard before.
I'm not saying I disagree with it, just that it's completely new to me.
On the other hand "SunOS" the name of the
base system OS (i.e. kernel
and userland).
Please elaborate. Including using the same terms for both names. How
does "userland" compare to "base system" and / or "user
interface"?
I'm also curious what differentiates between SunOS and a minimal install
of Solaris.
The name "SunOS" pre-dated the name
"Solaris" but continues on as
the name of the base OS within the Solaris package.
I thought the "SunOS" vs "Solaris" was a marketing change around the
time SunOS / Solaris transitioned from being more BSD to more Sys V.
I also thought that the retention of "SunOS" in the kernel name and
versioning was for backward compatibility.
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.
I was not aware that some of -- what I'll call -- the naming shenanigans
happened to SunOS 4. I was only aware of things at SunOS 5.
--
Grant. . . .
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