Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:30:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sun OS (Was: BSD Inquiry...) Message-ID: <14749.11357.141318.402994@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <002801c00905$504109e0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> References: <14749.1273.68656.905286@guru.mired.org> <002801c00905$504109e0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>
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James A Wilde writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer > > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:42 > > To: James A Wilde > > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: OT: Sun OS (Was: BSD Inquiry...) > > Um - the other end is Sys V, or maybe AT&T, not Sun OS. > <snip> > Oops, sorry. I didn't have the Red Book handy when I wrote my comment and > got the wrong Sun Inc OS. Except SysV isn't a Sun Inc. OS. I've lost track of who owns it at this point. > > Linux isn't based on Unix source code. It's a rewrite from scratch > > based on the SysV manuals. So the flavor is a lot like SysV (or > > Solaris). On the other hand, there's no centralized source for Linux > > code outside the kernel, so you never know... > ...and presumably then Posix is SysV-like cos I know Linus has said that the > Linux kernel aims to be Posix compatible. Yeah, I think Posix started with SVID (the System V Interface Definition from AT&T), then cleaned things up and standardized some extensions. Then again, BSD tries to follow Posix, at least to some degree. I'm not sure how much of the system admin stuff is specified by Posix, but that's where the differences between SysV and BSD are most apparent to me. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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