[Linux-aus] SCO suspends it's Linux distribution

[Jon maddog Hall]

>Hang about, isn't Solaris BSD-derived? (-:

No, SunOS was BSD derived.  As part of USL, Scott McNeily agreed to switch
to a System V base for Sun (and call it Solaris).  Actually, when Sun got the
System V code, it was my understanding that they ripped it apart, and worked
very hard to make it a decent operating system, replacing a good deal of the
kernel code, and basically just keeping the system call interfaces.

The port of Sun's customers from SunOS to Solaris (often called Slowaris in
the early days) was one of the low points of Sun's history.

md
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