On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:05:56AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > According to documentation of BSD Unix [1], the uname command appeared
> > in 4.4BSD distribution, and the -s option is suposed to:
>
> Oy, it gets even more confusing. BSD has always used the term
> "operating system" to refer to the kernel.
heh, then i wonder how did they call the OS. anyway if the docs say
operating system IMHO this is what we're suposed to print ("do what i say
not what i do" ;))
> In any case, the output of a GNU/Hurd system on uname should match
> other GNU systems, and I don't see it as a particularly Hurd-specific
> issue.
there's an important difference. "GNU/Hurd" is a more specific way
to refer to _the_ GNU system, while other GNU systems like GNU/Linux
are _variants_ of the GNU system.
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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