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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2961 comp.os.linux.misc:20732 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> <1994Jul28.020436.6672@escape.widomaker.com> <319jeg$d1d@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Message-ID: <9407311523.08@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 20:23:10 GMT Lines: 29 Amy Baron (amee@dreamtime.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote: : In article <1994Jul28.020436.6672@escape.widomaker.com>, : Shannon Hendrix <shendrix@escape.widomaker.com> wrote: : >Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote: : > : >: SunOS != Solaris. Wake up. Too different products. Solaris is what is : > ^^^ : >Looks like you need to wake up. Since I posted that SunOS and Solaris : >are different (I used the names and didn't just say SunOS 5.x, even though : >Sun certainly does and it's OK to do so) any fool should have known : >better... 'cept you I guess. : Not to be pedantic, but ... : SunOS 4.x = Solaris 1.x and SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x . : SunOS is the operating system itself, and Solaris is the entire : operating "environment" . Presumably that includes Openwin and : all those related goodies (except the compiler, of course...). : Of course, in saying this, I am not trying to represent Sun, just : perhaps explain this fairly feeble concept... Solaris 1.x still includes the compiler and it seems to be still evolving. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com