From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 18:40:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9FA16A41A for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:40:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B948813C4AA for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:40:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:63664 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IiaIF-0000Uw-7v for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:40:27 +0200 Received: (qmail 82187 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2007 20:40:24 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 18 Oct 2007 20:40:24 +0200 Received: (qmail 50616 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Oct 2007 20:40:24 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:40:24 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20071018184024.GB50522@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" , "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> <47176229.50904@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IiaIF-0000Uw-7v. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IiaIF-0000Uw-7v c3f2673c0d33a63e39e6f522c21264c1 Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:40:29 -0000 On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM +0000, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. > > "UNIX Certified" what the #@$#$@ does that mean as far I know no one is > in a position to make such a statement except maybe the current owner of > the Unix trademark (sco if I am not mistaken) SCO has never owned the UNIX trademark. The current owner of is The Open Group, and they are indeed the ones that certify products as being officialy 'UNIX'. > > > > I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: > > It costs a lot of money. > > And give SCO a reason to actually consolidate it's illegitimate claim to > be the steward of Unix when there is no such thing beyond the holder of > the trademark. > > > > > > That said, if in theory one were to try to get the operating system > > certified (say, to increase awareness and market share versus the > > penguinistas)... > > > > a) approximately how much money is "a lot"? > > > > and > > > > b) How far short, technically, does FreeBSD fall from the standard > > (we'll ignore operational semantics for the time being) > > MacOS-X is FreeBSD at it's core thus we are ready now (actually all > that is required is POSIX complience) MacOS X is partly based on FreeBSD, but they have also taken code from several other places, as well as made a whole lot of changes themselves. That MacOS X is UNIX-certifified says very little about how well FreeBSD will do in that regard. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se