Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 17:02:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX Specification Message-ID: <199603030002.RAA02973@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603022004.PAA18726@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Charles Green" at Mar 2, 96 03:04:12 pm
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> } > 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... To find out, run the validation suite. This will cost you on the order of $50,000 to acquire. This was one of the arguments I put forth for a consortium. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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