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>RE Solaris UNIX?</H3>
<p><strong>From Mitchell Bruntel
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Gee: I have a question, and an answer.
I sent the question earlier about LILO and not booting hda5 (ugh)
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Is AIX or Solaris or SunOS or HP-UX a UNIX?
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[Heather] AIX and Solaris are blessed with this trademark under
"UNIX 98", HP-UX and Tru64 among others are blessed
under "UNIX 95". (You can see the Open Group's Registered Product
Catalog if you care:
<blockquote><A HREF="http://www.opengroup.org/regproducts/catalog.htm"
>http://www.opengroup.org/regproducts/catalog.htm</A>
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I don't think SunOS ever got so blessed; it was a BSD derivitive after
all. You can read some about the confusions between SunOS
and Solaris in this handy note:
<blockquote><A HREF="http://www.math.umd.edu/~helpdesk/Online/GettingStarted/SunOS-Solaris.html"
>http://www.math.umd.edu/~helpdesk/Online/GettingStarted/SunOS-Solaris.html</A>
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> [Mitchell]
Here's the deal on SOLARIS.
IT IS UNIX. It still has portions that were (c) 198X by AT&amp;T and USL.
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Solaris (as opposed to SUN-OS) IS UNIX System V.4
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AT&amp;T merged Sun-OS back in with System V and got a bunch of stuff.
especially the init systems we love, as well as package-add format.
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btw, is there any demand in LINUX for users/programmers with SUN system V
package-add experience?
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> [Heather] I imagine that places which are using Linux to mix
Suns and PCs, with Solaris on their Sparcs, and Linux on the PCs...
possibly even a more SysV-ish distro like Slackware... would find
such programmers handy.
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> [Mitchell]
(so because SUN is STILL the UNIX reference "port" for UNIX System
V.4, --from the old days)
it <em>IS</em> UNIX, and therefore doesn't need the blessing.
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BTW, Solaris also has the distinction of being BOTH BSD, and System V.4 both
in one.
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a great deal of the product is now engineered to favor V.4, but there are
still some BSD roots and compatibility there!
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Mitch Bruntel
<br>(ATT Labs-- maybe that's why I know this trivia?)
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