From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 12: 0: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79113EDF for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA15353; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:23:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:23:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: J McKitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <20000201122329.T24609@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org> <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:45:06PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * James A. Mutter [000201 12:15] wrote: > 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... And at the same time careful to remeber what the name Unix promises. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message