From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 11:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9814E3EA8 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p92.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.92]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14856; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:45:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 14:45:06 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J McKitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? References: <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J McKitrick wrote: > > I just read Greg's article on BSD advocacy. Just a question: Linux is > actually a Unix clone. Can BSD be called Unix? Or are we just Unix > compatible, or Unix-based? > -- I think that in this day and age it's fair to say that if it looks like UNIX, walks like UNIX and talk like UNIX that it is certainly UNIX. We need to be careful not to get caught up in something as silly as a name... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message