Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:07:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion Message-ID: <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <20060430211517.GA11971@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200604302035.50870.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> <86mze2vx38.fsf@xps.des.no> <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +0000, Maslan wrote.. > On 5/1/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > >Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> writes: > >> If you watch Revolution OS, Linus points out that his main thing for > >> doing Linux was that he wanted something like he had used at the > >> university he was at and he says it was SunOS. Sun OS / Solaris, are > >> straight BSD. > > > >Wrong. Solaris is SysV with some BSD bits tacked on. > > > >DES > >-- > >Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd. > www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos Be specific: SunOS 3.x and 4.x are BSD. The later ones are called Solaris 1.x IIRC Solaris 2.x also calls itself SunOS, just take a close look at the boot messages. It is as DES already pointed out a SysV derivative wikipedia stinks too often to be taken as gospel... -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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