From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 21:45:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54BAA37B4FE for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40878 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2000 05:45:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14883.18053.897935.589671@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:45:41 -0600 (CST) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Meyer , Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBsd (reposted) In-Reply-To: <20001128153136.F36542@echunga.lemis.com> References: <105953745@toto.iv> <14883.13084.936215.485266@guru.mired.org> <20001128153136.F36542@echunga.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey types: > 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". That may well be the case. I recall having to install SunOS and then Solaris for 4.x, but that may have been a local oddity. The real confusion is in the usage, not the naming - well, except for Solaris 7 & 8. I don't know where the habit of using "Solaris" to refer to Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x and "SunOS" to refer to Solaris 1.x/SunOS 4.x, but's a confusing habit. Other companies that went through the BSD->SysV transition changed the name of the OS: Ultrix turned into OSF (among other things), and MIPS changed the name on theirs as well (though I don't recall both names). > > The *windowing* system that is bundled with SunOS is called Solaris. > I recall it being called openview. Wasn't it SunView, then OpenWindows? With NeWS or SunDEW or some such in the middle?