Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 15:04:12 -0500 From: Charles Green <chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX Specification Message-ID: <199603022004.PAA18726@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> "Re: UNIX Specification" (Mar 2, 0:32)
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Chuck Robey stands accused of saying: } Date: Mar 2, 0:32 } Subject: Re: UNIX Specification } On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Charles Green wrote: } } > How close to the "SINGLE UNIX SPECIFICATION" is FreeBSD? } } I'm tempted to laugh here. You may not know it, but lack of a SINGLE } UNIX SPECIFICATION is probably the single most talked about subject of } the last 10 years for the Unix community. Since there is no such thing, } well, FreeBSD is (I suppose) as close as my digital wristwatch. Laugh if you wish but with the merger of X/Open and OSF I've found that this is becoming more of an issue. Besides, I'd like to see FreeBSD branded as an official "UNIX". } This is very philosophical, be real careful in drawing too much from it. } FreeBSD does (in my own opinion) care somewhat more about standards, and } definitely has a lot of very good points, including pretty solid } networking code, and relatively fewer fanatics on the mailing lists here } than Linux seems to have. I'm aware of this but what I'm not aware of is *exactly* how close it is... }-- End of excerpt from Chuck Robey -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming
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