From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 03:39:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA22398 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 03:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA22386 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 03:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA27141; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 03:31:38 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA13408; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:31:32 +0200 Message-Id: <9604041131.AA13408@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from "Christoph P. Kukulies" of Thu, 04 Apr 96 11:43:26 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: what is bsdish? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Apr 96 13:31:31 +0200 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: > > I had a discussion with someone recently about flavors of OSs > and I was stating that HP-UX (Version 9.05) is SYSV flavor. > It has ps -edf, different kernel build environment, no /etc/rc. > He was stating HP-UX *is* BSD. Now what makes a SYSV system, what > makes a BSD system? > I'd be more inclined to ask "what doesn't make a SYSV system ?" no streams, no /etc/rc?.d/* stuff, no libnsl, no libsocket, no libbsd, etc. No ttymon, no sac. And a host of other things which I can't think of off-hand, although my workstation is SYS5R4 :-) --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org