Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:11:59 +0100 (MET) | | From | David Weinehall <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes |
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said: > > [...] > > > Incidentally, the cost is the same. A CDROM for Solaris is > > essentially the same cost as a CDROM for Linux. Once you start > > distributing an operating system and supporting the distributors, > > a "free" operating system is no longer free. > > You must pay per-installation fees for SunOS. And SunOS is long dead, > unless you are talking about Solaris.
This is slightly off-topic, but I suggest you log on to a Solaris-machine sometime and use uname -a. Not a word about Solaris... The operating system is still SunOS, the distribution is Solaris. The fact that there (to my knowledge) exists no other distribution does not matter here.
/David Weinehall _ _ // David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </
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