From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 8 1:21:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF3537B5B8 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 01:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA12380; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:49:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:49:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Chavez Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD v. Unix Message-ID: <20000708174937.J11249@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000708021231.B36356@magus.users.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000708021231.B36356@magus.users.xmission.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 8 July 2000 at 2:12:31 -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: > Fellow advocates: > > I don't remember where exactly, but I have seen FreeBSD referred to as > the "last true Unix." Is this a wholly accurate description? No. I don't think it's even partially accurate for any reasonable definition of "partially". Recall that it shares no code with AT&T UNIX up to and including the Seventh Edition. > Would it be correct to refer to *BSD in such a manner? No. In fact, we don't want to refer to "*BSD" at all: it sounds divisive. BSD without the '*' looks a lot better. As to "the last true UNIX": that way Holy Wars lie. I've most often heard it applied to the Seventh Edition. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message