Re: installer misidentifies illumos OS

On 3/8/26 17:27, Karl Berry wrote:
> But, it surprises me that illumos ends with 2.*11* -- if it's based on
> 2.10, why should it be reporting itself as 2.11? What is uname -a?
> OTOH, if it's reporting itself as 2.11, shouldn't 2.11 binaries be
> supported?

My (possibly wrong) understanding is that when Solaris 10 temporarily 
became OpenSolaris (and then later illumos), it went from 10 -> 11 to 
mark the difference. But then when Oracle Solaris 11 came out it also 
went from 10 -> 11.

Since you asked:

carson@yoknapatawpha:~$ uname -a
SunOS yoknapatawpha 5.11 illumos-0a457a339d i86pc i386 i86pc


Not under discussion here, but for completeness here it is from an 
OmniOS machine as well:

carson@matroska:~$ uname -a
SunOS matroska 5.11 omnios-r151056-1acbca4f5bd i86pc i386 i86pc