What version of Solaris

April 5th, 2005

To find out what version of Solaris a server is running, use the command:

uname -a

This returns something like:

SunOS sandbox 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R

SunOS 5.6 is Solaris 2.6
SunOS 5.7 is Solaris 7
SunOS 5.8 is Solaris 8

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