From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 05:40:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14065 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14042; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01238; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:38:48 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <34BE2D83.36F7DA23@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:38:44 +0200 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Das Devaraj CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Das Devaraj wrote: > (This is _reluctantly_ sent to freeBSD-isp also, in case the > commercial folks - ISPs - see it in a different light). > > Can I _legally_ claim that my box running FreeBSD is UNIX? > Or should it phrased that the OS is a _UNIX clone_. Note that clone. UNIX is register trademark of X/Open.www.xopen.org OS390 de ure --- UNIX ;)) > this has nothing to do with the actual power of FreeBSD. What > happened after the UNIX name was bought from AT?T by Novell (is > it public domain now?) > > Also is there a minimum set of functionality that needs to be > supported before something is considered UNIX or even a UNIX clone? > Have heard terms like UNIX 95, X/Open branding etc. tossed around. > http://www.xopen.org for references. Look at http://UNIX-systems.org for online single-unix specification. FreeBSD is not full compability with standart, (for example have no uid_t and gid_t), but near 95% of standart work. > das > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Interested in Vegetarianism? Vegetarian Restaurant Trek > Web http://www.VegInfo.com 712 Bancroft Road #320 > e-mail info@VegInfo.com (subject Help) Walnut Creek, CA 94598 > Interactive Voice/fax Response (510) 256-8420 USA -- @= //RSSH mailto://Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA