From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 21: 6:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070BB37B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAS51ao37494; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:31:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:31:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Meyer Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) Message-ID: <20001128153136.F36542@echunga.lemis.com> References: <105953745@toto.iv> <14883.13084.936215.485266@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: <14883.13084.936215.485266@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:22:52PM -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 Monday, 27 November 2000 at 22:22:52 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Cliff Sarginson types: >> BSD became the basis for certain versions of UNIX, most notably >> Sunos..aka these days Solaris, and Ultrix (DEC Unix of it's day, >> the most awful Unix system ever let loose). > > Sun wins the award for the most confusing naming, hands down. I don't know what's so confusing about that. SunOS up to 4 was based on BSD. SunOS from 5 onward was based on System V. Solaris is a name they introduced towards the end of the life of SunOS 4 to represent the "complete operating system". > The *windowing* system that is bundled with SunOS is called Solaris. I recall it being called openview. >> Most others got based loosely or otherwise on licensed code >> from AT&T, and there was always obeissance to the Regents of >> the University of California" in the copyright notices. >> This is the basis for HP-UX, Dynix/PTX, SCO etc etc... > > Yup - everybody but AT&T ships some mixture of AT&T and BSD. And even > AT&T uses BSD code. AT&T doesn't ship at all any more. SCO has the code base, such as it is. >> Oh I forgot to mention AIX, IBM's Unix. There I've mentioned it. > > "It'll remind you of Unix." It reminded me of MVS. 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