Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:57:57 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like? Message-ID: <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <55940645@toto.iv>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > I disagree with "if it doesn't say BSD it is NOT Unix!" Certainly > Solaris is a UNIX, and it is based SVR4 (this was not always the case; > it used to be a BSD derivative). Actually, Solaris still contains BSD-derived code. The folks at Sun merged SunOS (the colloquial name for Sun OS distributions that included SunOS through version 4.x) with SysV to get Solaris (ditto for SunOS 5.x, which includes Solaris 2 through 8). <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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