what does this mean?

UNIX Solaris
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Solaris 10 5/08 s10s_u5wos_10 SPARC

what does s10s_u5wos_10 stand for?

Thank

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s10s_u5 stands for "solaris 10 software update 5"

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More precisely:
Solaris 10 for SPARC, update 5, "Wad of Stuff", build #10.

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Hi, what does "Wad of Stuff" means? :o

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A wad of stuff is an entire solaris distribution made up of all of the different "stuff" eg. admin, install, desktop etc... which are each developed as "consolidations" when collected together they form the "wad" or complete distribution.

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All of our Solaris boxes have "wos" except for one:

> cat /etc/release
                           Solaris 9 s9_58shwpl3 SPARC
           Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 15 April 2002
>

We have several other Solaris 9 boxes that have "wos" in the release file, this is the only oddball. What's the deal here? I'm guessing that hw is probably hardware and pl is patch level. But where's the wad? Other hardware releases have a wad. Example: Solaris 8 2/04 s28s_hw4wos_05a SPARC

So is this some non-standard release?

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It may or may not be. SHWP versions of Solaris were shipped with Netra machines up until a few years back. I can't remember the full details but I do recall it being the "hardware oem" version of Solaris I believe it means "Solaris hardware program" and that it disappeared as a separate version when it was merged back sometime during the early updates of Solaris 9.

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s9_58shwpl3 is the official Solaris 9 FCS (First Customer Shipment) release.

None of the FCS Solaris releases have "wos" in their names:

S8 FCS:

                 Solaris 8 s28_38shwp2 SPARC
Copyright 1994-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
                 Assembled 21 January 2000

S10 FCS:

            Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
            Use is subject to license terms.
              Assembled 22 January 2005

Releases (FCS, updates and H/W) older than Solaris 8 had no "wos" in their name either, eg:

            Solaris 7 s998s_SunServer_21al2b SPARC
Copyright 1998 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                 Assembled 06 October 1998

        Solaris 2.6 s297s_smccServer_37cshwp SPARC
Copyright 1994-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
           Manufactured in the USA 18 July 1997

            Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97  SPARC
Copyright 1994-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
           Manufactured in the USA 16 April 1997

Releases older than Solaris 2.5.1 H/W 4/97 had no /etc/release.