On Wednesday 14 February 2007 13:33, Rik Tindall wrote: > More fully: > > ..where does BSD stand - ahead or behind - in relation to GNU/Linux and > Unix?
FWIW, BSD was the leading *nix during the eighties and the early nineties. If it didn't originate in BSD it was probably not worth bothering about. If it was in BSD but not in AT&T's SysVRx, you either threw a fit or had your *nix company retrofit the BSD feature/s to your SysVRx. Sun collaborated with AT&T to combine BSD and SysVR3, to produce SysVR4. This caused quite a bit of consternation amongst the other *nix vendors, with the result that an alternative *nix, based on Mach, was started. HP's Compaq's DEC's OSF/1 exists as HP Tru64 now. That said, Solaris is the current leading SysVRx *nix version available these days. Sun started out originally with BSD, and SunOS was the leading BSD-based *nix at that time. IBM's AIX was originally based on SysVR3, if I remember correctly, but I've never used it. BSD was the more mature code base when Linux came out. Linux soon caught up though. I wouldn't be able to say which is ahead in which way. > > (That is, BSD is progressing by leaps & bounds these days. What is the > relevance of this fact to a computer Users' Group such as ours?) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
