From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 20:32:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (mail1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2ED37B42C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c151460-a.alton1.il.home.com ([24.17.229.11]) by mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000824033223.NMQW1063.mail1.rdc1.il.home.com@c151460-a.alton1.il.home.com> for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:32:23 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by c151460-a.alton1.il.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id WAA16633 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:39:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:39:02 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about freeBSD vs Unix Message-ID: <20000823223902.A15229@c151460-a.alton1.il.home.com> References: <20000824005854.19757.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:25:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I think that Caldera owns the UNIX trademark now. Victor On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:25:40PM -0700, Stephen Hansen wrote: > Newbie Reply: > > My understanding of the history-of-things is that 'UNIX' is a term which > is generally applied to OS's that are descendants of AT&T(?) UNIX. The > Trademark of the name, currently, apparently, is SCO's, though this might > be wrong. But since FreeBSD is a descendant of 4.4BSD-Lite(?), it *is* > UNIX. > > Linux, conversely, is not UNIX. It is a unix-clone/unix-like OS. I'm not > saying that makes it bad :) It is just a completely seperate codebase > which was written to be like UNIX, it does not trace its lineage down the > UNIX line. > > Then again, I could be generally dumb :) > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, m bram wrote: > > > > > Hi. A quick question. Does freeBSD basically emulate a UNIX system. In other words, if I knew how to work under a unix administrator, would I therefore be totally comfortable with a freeBSD system. ARe there majore differences? Thanks for taking the time to read this & respond. > > > > Yours truly, > > > > Mitchell Bram > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "Let's get it straight: copyright infringement is not piracy. No one wears eye patches and cries 'Aargh!' as they download the latest Britney Spears..." -------------------------------------------------- As posted on Slashdot by Gilroy, August 8, 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message