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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2853 comp.os.linux.misc:20385 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!CERN.ch!news From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Message-ID: <CtLEK1.Ir8@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul21.182603.15882@belvedere.sbay.org> <2NsBkiCqLiLU068yn@cs.odu.edu> <30pn0a$9rf@hermes.unt.edu> <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:33:36 GMT Lines: 42 In <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: >Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com) wrote: > >: Also, SunOS is no longer a port of BSD. It's yet another version of >: SVR4.2 now, not BSD. It's been that way since Solaris 2 was released >: and it is the future, like it or not. > >SunOS != Solaris. Wake up. Too different products. Solaris is what is >shipped nowdays, exactly why I will *NOT* buy sparcs anymore. Wake up. Solaris is only a nickname for SunOS 5.x, which is the official name of the OS: sunsoref:~ 1> uname -a SunOS sunsoref 5.3 Generic sun4m sparc > >: Because BSD is dead. I wish it were not so because I prefer BSD but >: SVR4.2 is the future of UNIX, not BSD. You actually made a wrong >: choice by your own critieria. > >Funny, I am running BSD right now. My machine is functioning and pretty >fucking good thank you. As for development there is alot of BSD >development going on right now, just not from Berkeley's commercial entity. > >This whole BSD is dead shit just doesn't add up missy. What he meant is that none of the five big Unix vendors (HP, Sun, IBM, DEC and SGI) is currently developing a BSD-based OS for their workstations. On the PC-Unix market, the situation is similar (BSDI being the exception, not the rule). BSD is not dead, but it doesn't seem to have any commercial future. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is a completely different story. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland