Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:56:19 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: adrian@virginia.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is bsdish? Message-ID: <199604041656.LAA06719@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960404095533.14826E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Apr 4, 96 10:02:05 am
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adrian@virginia.edu wrote > On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > > 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? > > Well, the Aeleen Frish's "Essential System Administration" uses > the presence or absence of /etc/inittab to classify machines. It's > pretty goot all in all. > > BTY, I believe HP-UX 9.x is SRV3 derived whereas HP-UX 10.x is > SRV4. HP-UX does have a bunch of BSDisms though. (Not enough for me > thoguh. ;-) Yup. Inittab is about the equivalent for checking the gender of a Unix what genitals are to humans. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |
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