From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 18:07:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B9B16A456 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 18:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A8643D6E for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 18:07:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k41I7kQR021126; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:07:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k41I7jt5019511; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:07:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k41I7jcQ019510; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:07:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:07:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Maslan Message-ID: <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <20060430211517.GA11971@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200604302035.50870.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> <86mze2vx38.fsf@xps.des.no> <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , Allen , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 18:07:52 -0000 On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +0000, Maslan wrote.. > On 5/1/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > >Allen 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