From: brantley@coraid.com (Brantley Coile)
Subject: [TUHS] How good a representative of System V is Solaris
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:32:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <895A6F41-039C-405D-AF14-7F3A3457D11E@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8E599E6-18BA-41D3-AEA4-DCFA5BD77897@tfeb.org>
Solaris is not pure System V. I started working on the internals of
System V in 1985 and I have purchased a number of Solaris boxes in the
1990's and 2000's and while Solaris is based on the System V kernel,
it doesn't feel like System V.
Brantley
On May 29, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 29 May 2009, at 13:12, A P Garcia wrote:
>
>> It sure looks like the Solaris 8
>> userland, at least, is almost pure System V.
>
> I don't think that follows from the copyright headers. Those can't be
> removed unless there is (essentially) *nothing* remaining of the
> original.
>
> Alternatively, you could say that, yes, it's a System V, but it's a
> late 90s System V (and Solaris 10 is a 2005 System V). So it depends
> on what you are after I guess: if you want to know what System V was
> like in 1980-something then Solaris won't tell you that, any more than
> OS X will tell you what 4.2 BSD was like. If you want to know what a
> *modern* System V or BSD is like then, sure, look at Solaris or OS X.
>
> --tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-29 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-29 12:12 A P Garcia
2009-05-29 13:08 ` Tim Bradshaw
2009-05-29 13:32 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2009-05-30 0:20 ` Michael Kerpan
2009-05-30 1:51 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-30 9:10 ` Wesley Parish
2009-05-30 2:15 ` Jason Stevens
2009-05-30 5:01 ` [TUHS] Modern BSD system? (was: How good a representative of System V is Solaris) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2009-05-30 9:29 ` Tim Bradshaw
2009-05-30 17:01 ` [TUHS] Modern BSD system? M. Warner Losh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-30 13:47 [TUHS] How good a representative of System V is Solaris Pepe
2009-05-28 17:00 Michael Kerpan
2009-05-28 17:40 ` Larry McVoy
2009-05-29 8:34 ` Tim Bradshaw
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