From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 15: 0:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D036837B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 361E46AC94; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:30:26 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:30:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Meyer Cc: Andrew Hesford , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like? Message-ID: <20010311093026.B57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <55940645@toto.iv> <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:57:57PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 March 2001 at 20:57:57 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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). All System V implementations contain lots of BSD code. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message