HP-UX version

[Ramesh S]

Hi Guru's

Normally, if i do

uname -r or -a

it shows me the HP-UX OS version like B.11.00, B.11.11, B.11.23, B.11.31...

What does the 'B' mean?

May sounds silly...

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh

[Venkatesh BL]

Not very sure, but, I guess it would mean "Branch"

[Mridul Shrivastava]

If you refer the man pages for uname, it clearly says its The operating system release identifier.

[Asif Sharif]

HI Ramesh,

Its "Operating System Release Identifier"
please click the below mentioned page for "HP-UX Operating System Release History"

http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/history/slide2.html

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Torsten.]

Not absolutely sure, but it sounds reasonable.

According to the uname man page the very old releases are "A" releases, example:

A.09.01

The successor was B.10.00.

It's still "B" for all current releases ...
consider this as just a name.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>Torsten: consider this as just a name.

Right. Versions used to be V.UU.FF for version, update and fix.

[Ramesh S]

Thank you all for the replies.