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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2871 comp.os.linux.misc:20445 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!somnet.sandia.gov!elam.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Message-ID: <1994Jul28.135246.16735@sandia.gov> Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> <CtLEK1.Ir8@news.cern.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 13:52:46 GMT Lines: 19 In article <CtLEK1.Ir8@news.cern.ch>, Dan Pop <danpop@cernapo.cern.ch> wrote: >In <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: > >> [ ... ] >>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 Solaris is the SunSoft product name, and SunOS is the name used by SMCC. --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>