From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Nov 15 07:48:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22338 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA22323 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:48:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA14597; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:45:47 +0600 Message-ID: <328CB977.3CB2@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:41:59 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." Reply-To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Koeller CC: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] ....POSIX and other stuff References: <199611150842.JAA12113@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lars Koeller wrote: > > ----- > > Hi! > > Good idea, to certify POSIX compatibility to FreeBSD I think a lot of ISV only > looks up if a OS fits some international standards. > > Lars Hello! Well... actually POSIX wasnīt my idea, NetBSD and OpenBSD are already working on it and I think FreeBSD also has some work going on. Linux is following POSIX because they donīt have enough standards, at least we donīt have a Slackware. Debian, and RedHAT BSD! This movement started because NIST liberated their POSIX conformance test hoping that someone will use it. ISVīs will only look for profit :(, the only interested in POSIX certification are government agencies and contractors. The idea of a compatibility certification for Linux under FreeBSD is not at all bad, but I would be _very_ surprised if Linux developers would accept being certified by another OS. The good part of the idea is that we should know which emulated apps run under Freebsd before buying them! To put it another way, I wouldnīt buy Oracle for SCO right now. Pedro.