From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:08:19 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] How good a representative of System V is Solaris In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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