From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 18:58: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D58B337B71A for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 18:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 51952 invoked by uid 100); 10 Mar 2001 02:57:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:57:57 -0600 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like? In-Reply-To: <55940645@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford 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). 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