From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 16:35:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9063F03 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA22337; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:00:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:00:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Dutch Collins Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <20000201170028.E24609@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org> <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net> <20000201122329.T24609@fw.wintelcom.net> <389768BA.D84C4C18@charm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <389768BA.D84C4C18@charm.net>; from dutch@charm.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 06:14:02PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dutch Collins [000201 15:39] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > * James A. Mutter [000201 12:15] wrote: > > > J McKitrick wrote: > > > > > > > > I just read Greg's article on BSD advocacy. Just a question: Linux is > > > > actually a Unix clone. Can BSD be called Unix? Or are we just Unix > > > > compatible, or Unix-based? > > > > -- > > > > > > I think that in this day and age it's fair to say that if it looks like > > > UNIX, walks like UNIX and talk like UNIX that it is certainly UNIX. We > > > need to be careful not to get caught up in something as silly as a > > > name... > > > > And at the same time careful to remeber what the name Unix promises. > > > > -Alfred > > > > Ok can't resist. That begs the question. > > If I install the; 'corel debian', 'red hat', 'debian by debian', > 'slackware', 'caldera', 'my 4.4bsd-lite (1994)' and > 'FreeBSD 3.4-R', on different boxes. Which promise will be kept? I'm not willing to do all the work for you, go read linux-kernel mailing lists and research all the _standards_ that linux considers 'dumb' and promises to _never_ support. File read/write atomicity is one. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message