From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 09:45:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA07291 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA07280 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA02691; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:43:43 +0100 Message-ID: <349960CE.FEAFEE62@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:43:42 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > SunOS aka SunOS 4.x aka Solaris 1.x is based on BSD 4.2 with some 4.3 > > stuff migrated in and some SVR3 mixed in for good mesure. > > > > Solaris 2.x aka SunOS 5.x is based on SVR4. > Well, these aren't technically correct. > Solaris and SunOS were completely different lines of developement; calling > SunOS Solaris 1.x/2.x is Sun's way of editing history to suit themselves. > But both of these have a lot of changes from the vanilla SVR4/4.2BSD that > they're derived from. > Well, these aren't technically correct ;-). Solaris includes SunOS, OpenWindows and other packages: Solaris 1.x includes SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3; Solaris 2.x includes SunOS 5.x and OpenWindows 3.x. And indeed, SunOS 4.x is a BSD derivative and SunOS 5.x is SVR4 based. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan