Subj : Re: Hello?
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : William McBrine
Date : Mon Oct 23 2000 05:33 am

-=> Lawrence Garvin wrote to William McBrine <=-

 LG> Next thing I knew Sun was offering "Solaris 7" as a free single-user
 LG> package and I jumped on it.

Solaris 2.6 was also offered for "free" (actually $18, IIRC). I bought a copy, 
but for a variety of reasons, haven't gotten around to installing it.

 WM> There might also be an element of rivalry with Linux, where many
 WM> distros are at 6.x or 7.x (though the kernel is just into 2.4.x).

 LG> Except that, as mentioned previously, "Solaris 7" was released when
 LG> Slackware was still at version 3.x.

Except that, as mentioned previously, the reference to Slackware was a joke, 
and "Linux" != "Slackware". Anyway, 3.x is still > 2.x. :-)

 LG> Sun that bumped the Solaris numbers to compete.. but perhaps Slackware
 LG> that bumped there's to compete with Solaris 7, Unixware 7, OpenServer

I doubt that Solaris et al. entered into it. Slackware's version numbering was 
competing with that of other Linux distros.

.... Have I found God? What? Did you lose him AGAIN?!
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