From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 09:01:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10404 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:01:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@[205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10398 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA06719; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:56:20 -0500 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199604041656.LAA06719@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: what is bsdish? To: adrian@virginia.edu Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:56:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Apr 4, 96 10:02:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 |