From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 30 10:11:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA17624 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dirac.phys.washington.edu (dirac.phys.washington.edu [128.95.93.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17610 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by dirac.phys.washington.edu (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/UW-NDC Revision: 2.25 ) id KAA21343; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:11:40 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" Message-Id: <199610301811.KAA21343@dirac.phys.washington.edu> Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #1590 To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:11:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <199610300159.RAA19432@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Oct 29, 96 05:59:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Terry Lambert > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:06:06 -0700 (MST) > > Note that having access to the NIST/PCTS is not the same as being > certified. Certification still requires an authorized testing laboratory > to run the test, and it only applies to a particular release level: the > one tested. Well, I don't know if anyone will want to put up the money for certification by an authorized testing lab, but we should be able to (and I believe people are already working towards being able to) pass the tests unoficially. Then we might be able to claim that FreeBSD is "certifiable". :-) ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky somsky@phys.washington.edu Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954