On Monday 01 May 2006 2:43 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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.
> > > > 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. Man I would LOVE to find a good sun box. Nothing huge, just a box I can use to toy with Solaris and oldschool stuff like early SunOS. I just don't have the cash, all I can afford right now are PCs. And I can't even buy a new one of those for at least a few months. Just want at least one UNIX box in the house. > > 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. Software naming has always been a pain ;) > 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 ;) I use the handle gore on a lot of stuff. You'd be surprised how many people think I mean that guy. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
