From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 25 23:18:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0882014EE4 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10GHX0-0000qD-00; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:17:54 -0800 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:17:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Igor Roshchin , dkelly@hiwaay.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD [3.1] is Unix ??? (Was: Re: 3.1 Release splash image) In-Reply-To: <199902260440.VAA11606@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Any idea what would be involved in getting to be "Real UNIX"? I > mean, besides the obvious license fee to X/Open. > > Is there some validation suite that would have to be passed? How > close are we? It will never happen. I don't the validation suite is freely available, and it costs a lot of money for an official test. So the best you can do is eyeball the spec and eyeball the code and figure it out for yourself. > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message