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How to verify from uname -a output, if the installed Solaris OS is openSolaris or not.

I need to know the type of OS installed like, Solaris or opensolaris or Solaris Express etc

cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 22 January 2005

uname -a
SunOS sndcc02.sanjose.ibm.com 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc
SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
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The OpenSolaris distro identified itself in /etc/release, as did Solaris Express - neither has existed or been supported in years though, so checking for them is not really relevant today. Also, only a development version of SunOS 5.11 was ever released as OpenSolaris - if uname reports SunOS 5.10, it is the Solaris 10 release that predates OpenSolaris.

As an example, OpenSolaris 2009.06 had this in /etc/release:

                     OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86
       Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                    Use is subject to license terms.
                          Assembled 07 May 2009

And Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 had this in /etc/release:

                  Oracle Solaris 11 Express snv_151a X86
 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
                       Assembled 04 November 2010
alanc
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    Just in case you want to check the release details on Solaris 11, you can run 'pkg info entire' command to get the exact version and build details. – Chandrasekar Aug 12 '14 at 15:03
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From here, I see you could also issue showrev command to find out the version.

$ showrev –a
Hostname: starbug
Hostid: nnnnnnnn
Release: 5.9
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain: solar.com
Kernel version: SunOS 5.9 May 2002
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    showrev was removed in OpenSolaris and Solaris 11 & later, so can only give answers for Solaris 10 & older. – alanc Aug 09 '14 at 04:14