From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 11:10:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14406 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com (codie04.ops.aol.com [152.163.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA14401 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@dc.infi.net) Received: from [152.163.101.11] by codie04.ops.aol.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA03899; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 14:10:20 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971218141018.00922220@shellhost.dc.infi.net> X-Sender: ron@shellhost.dc.infi.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 14:10:18 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ron Steele Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <349960CE.FEAFEE62@we.lc.ehu.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is all too easy. I want to know the linage of HP-UX. :) Ron >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 > >