Re: [PLUG] directory conventions

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:25  AM, gabriel rosenkoetter 
wrote:

> Oh, fine, I'll bite. :^>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:24:46PM -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
> > Solaris is more System V than BSD with no OSF added. The old Sun OS 
> > was
> > similar to BSD until Bill got cosy with IBM and the resulting Solaris
> > looked mostly System V-ish.
>
> Uh, Solaris is very purposely System V and the old Sun OS (anything
> pre 5.6) was very purposely BSD. As in, Sun said that's what they
> were trying to do.

The fascinating thing about this was that a surprisingly large chunk of 
the Sun user base never understood what was happening -- they just 
complained that it didn't work right anymore.

Today, I suspect that the number of Solaris users who knew it as Sun OS 
are fewer and fewer.

> > Some go so far as to claim -- if it doesn't respond to "man hier" it's
> > not "really" Unix. (hier is the description of the "Standard file
> > system hierarchy").
>
> I'd agree with that in a second. I don't think it's going
> particularly far. (Now, if it doesn't have hier(7) because MANPATH
> is broken or you didn't install the manual, that doesn't count. ;^>)
>
> I don't know that having hier(7) means you're Unix-derived, though.

Well, Version 7 derived at least.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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