Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:58:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>, dkelly@hiwaay.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD [3.1] is Unix ??? (Was: Re: 3.1 Release splash image) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902260955170.8881-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902252314440.2883-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Tom wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > Any idea what would be involved in getting to be "Real UNIX"? I > > mean, besides the obvious license fee to X/Open. > > > > Is there some validation suite that would have to be passed? How > > close are we? > > It will never happen. I don't the validation suite is freely available, > and it costs a lot of money for an official test. So the best you can do > is eyeball the spec and eyeball the code and figure it out for yourself. Not only does the validation process cost money, but passing requires Motif/CDE. (For the workstation Unix at least). -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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