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 |--------+-----------------------> | | Greg Lehey | | | <grog@lemis.c| | | om> | | | | | | 07/08/00 | | | 02:19 AM | | | | |--------+-----------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Anthony Chavez | | <magus@magus.users.xmission.com> | | cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, (bcc: Joe | | Warner/SMS) | | Subject: Re: BSD v. Unix | >--------------------------------------------------------| 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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