Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:01:01 -0400 From: Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion Message-ID: <200605011801.01529.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20060501184309.GB19811@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <17494.21387.484871.980369@bhuda.mired.org> <20060501184309.GB19811@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Monday 01 May 2006 2:43 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:29:31PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote.. > > > In <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte=20 <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> typed: > > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +0000, Maslan wrote.. > > > > > > > On 5/1/06, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > > > > >Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> 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. > > > > SunOS 5.x was the OS. Solaris 2.x was the OS plus the windowing > > system. So when you booted a system running Solaris 2.x, you were > > greated with SunOS 5.x banenrs. Common usage was that SunOS 5 systems > > were called "Solaris", and SunOS 4 systems were called SunOS, > > regardless of how Sun labelled the distribution media. Man I would LOVE to find a good sun box. Nothing huge, just a box I can use= to=20 toy with Solaris and oldschool stuff like early SunOS. I just don't have th= e=20 cash, all I can afford right now are PCs. And I can't even buy a new one of= =20 those for at least a few months. Just want at least one UNIX box in the=20 house. > > Well.. Sun at some point took 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 into the Solaris naming > scheme. Just confusing to a lot of people. Software naming has always been a pain ;) > I meant wikipedia in general, not this one in particular. Its a bit like > people claiming "Bill Gates invented the internet". Or Al Gore for that > matter ;) I use the handle gore on a lot of stuff. You'd be surprised how many people= =20 think I mean that guy.
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