Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:29:31 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>, Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion Message-ID: <17494.21387.484871.980369@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <20060430211517.GA11971@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200604302035.50870.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> <86mze2vx38.fsf@xps.des.no> <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In <20060501180745.GC19342@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.= xs4all.nl> typed: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +0000, Maslan wrote.. > > On 5/1/06, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > > >Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net> writes: > > >> If you watch Revolution OS, Linus points out that his main thing= for > > >> doing Linux was that he wanted something like he had used at the= > > >> university he was at and he says it was SunOS. Sun OS / Solaris,= are > > >> straight BSD. > > > > > >Wrong. Solaris is SysV with some BSD bits tacked on. > > > > > >DES > > >-- > > >Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > > >_______________________________________________ > > >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@free= bsd.org" > > > > >=20 > > That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd. > > www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos >=20 > Be specific: SunOS 3.x and 4.x are BSD. The later ones are called > Solaris 1.x IIRC > Solaris 2.x also calls itself SunOS, just take a close look at the bo= ot > messages. It is as DES already pointed out a SysV derivative SunOS 5.x was the OS. Solaris 2.x was the OS plus the windowing system. So when you booted a system running Solaris 2.x, you were greated with SunOS 5.x banenrs. Common usage was that SunOS 5 systems were called "Solaris", and SunOS 4 systems were called SunOS, regardless of how Sun labelled the distribution media. > wikipedia stinks too often to be taken as gospel... The entry for Solaris largely agrees with my recollection of events. It's been long enough that I'm a bit hazy on the details, but there's nothing in it I know to be wrong. =09<mike --=20 Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>=09=09http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more informatio= n.
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