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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!academ!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!metrics.com!tomh From: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Re: Is BSD dead? Organization: Software Metrics Inc. Message-ID: <DLEKtp.CIG@metrics.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <30F8483A.7187@commerce.uq.edu.au> <DL7yHA.K98@metrics.com> <bryDL90q4.AB2@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:46:36 GMT Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2036 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2198 comp.unix.solaris:57756 comp.unix.aix:69133 >: David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> writes: >:> BSD derived systems are pretty well dead (yes I'm sure there is an >:> exception, somewhere) but most mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4 >:> derived systems. > Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote: >: You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you? They still >: look amazingly live to me ... bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) writes: > Not compared to Linux! Their are alot of talented BSD people who could > be helping the Linux group but instead just in the UNIX tradition you > have all these different variants of free UNIX. So you believe that BSDI should just shut down the company and have their employees work on Linux for free, then? > Luckily Caldera choose Linux as most people are, and more importantly > Linux trys to be POSIX compliant meaning their is no BSD or SYSV bias! No, there is a Linux bias. :) More than half of the "different variants of free UNIX" are different Linux versions. -- [ /tom haapanen -- tomh@metrics.com -- software metrics inc -- waterloo, ont ] [ "i've attended the indy 500. that's formula one, ] [ not stock cars, but the idea's the same' -- dan quayle ]