'Dumb & Dumber' Seeks 'Best & Brightest'

[Chuck Yerkes]

And yet for years, I've called it "2.8" if only to
piss off my Sun employed friends and ex-sun coworkers.
Its technical name is 5.8.
Its marketing name is "8"

Me?  My SPARCs run BSD (free, net, open or bsdi).

FreeBSD runs pretty well on an E450.
 (5.1 which is numerically < 5.8, but administratively so far ahead...)


Quoting Mark C. Langston (mark at bitshift.org):
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:29:41PM -0500, Rob Windsor wrote:
> > 
> > Where do you see any (official) reference to "Solaris 2.8" other than the
> > broken patch script in jumpstart?
> > 
> 
> http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6722-10/a_SolPatches.html
> http://supportforum.sun.com/freesolaris/techfaqs.html?techfaqs_3122
> http://docs-pdf.sun.com/816-5639-10/816-5639-10.pdf
> http://http:/un.com/source/816-5935-10/install_.htm