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 wikipedia stinks too often to be taken as gospel... -- 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]"
