From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 17:46:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hal9000.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C437C37B405 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: by hal9000.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5082B2124; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:46:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:46:02 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: FreeBSD 4.3 is UNIX? Message-ID: <20010604204601.S49449@hal9000.servehttp.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is always a good day when the CDs arrive, even for a STABLE tracker such as I, with new colour schemes, product catalogue and of course more stickers. This is of course the first release backed by Wind River. What caught my eye right away was the new legend on the CD case, which reads "A Full High-performance 32/64 bit UNIX Operating System" in stark contrast to the usual "...4.4 BSD Lite based...". I can't find any indication that I missed the news that FreeBSD has been certified by the Open Group and note that it's not the colloquial "unix" or even the _all words start in upper case_ "Unix", but the Open Group specified all-caps "UNIX", except without the required registered trademark ® symbol. While in other cases this might be just an unintentional use of a common term, there is no way, given its rich and exciting history, that it would happen in a BSD release. To muddy the waters further, the FreeBSD Mall sheet has the same legend printed on it under the "FreeBSD 4.3" title, however the picture of the CD case, which is accurate in every other detail, shows the blurb on the CD as saying "...4.4 BSD Lite based..."! What's the story behind this? -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@altavista.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message