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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: UNIX Specification
To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 17:02:26 -0700 (MST)
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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
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