RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Farwell to the Cobalt Community

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Adams
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:29 PM
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Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Farwell to the Cobalt Community


> and of course it is true Unix, not Linux.

No, *BSD is not "true Unix".  Only AT&T based code is "true Unix" (i.e.
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO Unixware).  As part of the settlement of the
AT&T/BSD lawsuit, the BSD core code was stripped clean of AT&T code.
That's what set the *BSD versions back and when Linux got started
(otherwise there probably never would have been a Linux).

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Here is a quote from the FreeBSD site regarding the origins of FreeBSD

"FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, AMD64, DEC
Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARCR architectures. It is derived from
BSD, the version of UNIXR developed at the University of California,
Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.
Additional platforms are in various stages of development."

Close enough to being Unix for the people I hang out with, as far as
support goes - Datapipe themselves will be supporting it, which may just
consist of upgrading to more recent versions of FreeBSD, but I don't
really know. Just my 2c
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