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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.icon.net!root From: root@sun.icon.net (Super-User) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V Date: 22 Apr 1996 08:20:37 GMT Organization: (ICON) InterConnect Online, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4lffgl$jea@news.icon.net> References: <4lce4k$flh@news.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun.icon.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sandip Srivastava (ssriva1@umbc.edu) wrote: : A friend of mine who does quite a bit of C and Unix programming on Suns, : told me that SUN is moving away from a BSD based system towards System V. From Solaris 2.x onward, SUN is SVR4 certified UNIX. Though SUN still provide /usr/ucb for UCB's BSD compatibility. The files in /usr/ucb are mainly static link to SUN's own /sbin and /bin plus wrappers. : And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant? Yes, Linux is POSIX compatible. Wes Email: chew@sun.icon.net