HP UX version differences

[Varghese Mathew]

Hi Everyone,

Any idea, how many versions are there in HP UX 11.00 itself; like "B.11.00.U" and "B.11.00.E" etc., and what are the differences between them ?!!

Cheers !!!
Mathew

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

There are four flavors of 11.x:

> Operating Environment (OE)
> Enterprise OE
> Mission Critical OE
> Technical Computing OE

A good overview can be found in the pdf document ("HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (HP-UX 11i)" at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11i/index.html

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

The 4 operating environments that James talks about are the 11i operating environments.

Here is HPs web page for HP-UX, which seems to be geared towards 11i and the new Itanium processors:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/index.html

I do not know what the difference between 11.00.E and 11.00.U is. Here is HPs documentation area for 11.00, maybe you'll have better luck than me finding something.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/11.0/index.html

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi again:

Ah, yes, Patrick is correct. I answered for 11.11 (a.k.a. "11i"). If you truly mean 11.0, then, I too, am not sure what the "U" and the "E" signify.

If you want to add to this, 11.20 is the version for the Itanium processors. You will see this documentation labeled "11i Version 1.5). Thus we have 11.0, 11.11 (or "11i") and now 11.20 (or "11i version 1.5").

...the times, they are a'changing...

Regards!

...JRF...

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

The E and U in th euname string are the user license definition as far as I can recall.
It was there in the days when the user license was not printed in plain text fashion.

[Stefan Farrelly]

I believe there are 5 different versions of 11.X;

Version: Reldate: new features:
11.00 11/97 64-bit OS, DLKM, iCOD, CDE 2.1
11.10 03/00 SCA, JFS 3.3, 128-CPU, AutoFS, new ftpd
11.11 06/00 OEs, SuperDome, IO board OLAR, dynamic tunables, TCP NFS, perl5
11.20 Q2/01 IA-64, MxN threads
11.21 mid/01 CPU/RAM board OLAR