Solaris

Hello

sorry for this stupid question - but i have a

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Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b

server - and i dont know, what does this versioninfo "10/08 u6" mean - i think it is the version from installdate. but i often installed recommendet patchsets - i think a patchset doesn´t change the versioninfo - is it right ?

so what is recommended to do in my case ? install patchsets and everythink is ok ?

thynks,
greets

That means the version installed is Solaris 10 update 6 for the x86 architecture which was released on October 2008.
Recent patches update the information stored in /etc/release.

thank you, i am sure..

but is it recommended to update to a higher version (U8, U9... ?) or what is the difference to my version with latest patchset ?

my thought was if i install recommendet patchset i also going up to newer Updatelevel !?

sorry for my confusion

greets

You cannot patch to an higher version, you need to upgrade if you want to. While both looks similar, applying the recommended patches will only patch some of the existing packages (security patches and bug fixes) while upgrading will upgrade all packages that have evolved and also add new packages that might have appear in the meantime.
4 years, unless you already applied patches.
Not exactly, see my previous reply about patching vs upgrading.