Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:25:31 -0600 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, magus@magus.users.xmission.com Subject: Re: BSD v. Unix Message-ID: <85256918.004F1A18.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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> 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.
Greg,
Please don't take this personally or view this as critisism but I
recently purchased your book, "The Complete FreeBSD", and what an excellent
book it is! 8^) After reading the preface, I was under the impression
that FreeBSD is a raw UNIX system and has greater rights to call itself
UNIX than OS's like Linux because it's not a UNIX clone. I will quote from
the preface: "FreeBSD is a high-performance operating system derived from
the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD, the version of UNIX developed
at the University of California at Berkeley between 1975 and 1993. FreeBSD
is not a UNIX clone. Historically and technically, it has greater rights
than UNIX System V to be called UNIX Legally, it may not be called UNIX,
since UNIX is now a registered trade mark of The Open Group.
Can you expand on this? Am I missing the mark on this? Were you
saying that FreeBSD can still be called UNIX but not the "last true UNIX"?
Joe
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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
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