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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2879 comp.os.linux.misc:20492 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!koriel!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!dreamtime!amee From: amee@dreamtime.Eng.Sun.COM (Amy Baron) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX) Date: 29 Jul 1994 00:45:04 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <319jeg$d1d@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> <1994Jul28.020436.6672@escape.widomaker.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dreamtime.eng.sun.com Keywords: dada X-ORIGINAL-NEWSGROUPS: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Cc: 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... -- amy a baron - amee@eng.sun.com just like the information highway, but without the information