On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:29:31PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote.. > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:23:40PM +0000, Maslan wrote.. > > > On 5/1/06, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > > > > > > > That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd. > > > www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos > > > > 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 boot > > 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.
Well.. Sun at some point took 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 into the Solaris naming scheme. Just confusing to a lot of people. > > 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. I meant wikipedia in general, not this one in particular. Its a bit like people claiming "Bill Gates invented the internet". Or Al Gore for that matter ;) -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
