From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 6 05:35:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10737 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panix4.panix.com (panix4.panix.com [166.84.1.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10729 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by panix4.panix.com (8.8.5/8.8.8/PanixU1.4) with ESMTP id IAA19456; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:35:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA17017; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:23:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:23:17 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: Greg Lehey cc: Randall Senn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type In-Reply-To: <19990206122256.E79100@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > UNIX is a trade mark of AT&T. Oh, no, they sold it to Univel. > Wait, Univel became part of Novell. Hmm, Novell sold the product to > SCO. Ah, but SCO gave the name to the Open Group. Actually, Novell gave the name to the Open Group - in order to settle the longrunning litigation with Berkeley. They released two versions of `UnixWare' which was the renamed ATT src. ATT/USL never cleaned up the kernel src before selling to Novell. Novell was unable to clean it up and kernel panicks on shutdown were a feature...due to this and other screwups Novell basically gave UnixWare to SCO. SCO believed, erroneously, that UnixWare would become their flagship product. IT did not - and so OpenServer was not dropped as originally planned. (Reminds one of SunOS v. Solaris ;-) UnixWare is now the `enterprise' solution offered by SCO while OpenServer is for mid-sized businesses. I expect it will remain unpopular even though SCO has signed an agreement (not a letter of intent) with IBM to have big blue ship UnixWare with their enterprise boxes. The original Unix is now a bonafide white elephant. I've been running it since UnixWare 1. I now run 2.1.2 and 7. Neither one is even close to FreeBSD in terms of stability and functionality. In fact my Slackware boxes are also *much* more reliable than SCO. So much for Unix v. Unix-Like. ;-) My shop is looking to migrate from unix to unix-like on our remaining `unix' boxes. ---- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center Thomas Good Information Systems Coordinator E-Mail: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Empowered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message