[Cialug] Larry Ellison is posturing again. Everyone watch out!

[John.Lengeling at radisys.com]

cialug-bounces at cialug.org wrote on 04/18/2006 05:44:45 PM:

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but:  Not only is Solaris not 
Linux, it 
> doesn't have gnu binutils either. 

Solaris is UNIX System V with BSD extensions/stuff thrown in.

>So it lacks all that marks Linux as Linux 
> and not BSD.

If it had all of the Linux stuff in it, then it would be called "Linux" 
not Solaris.

> 
> I'm sure you could install gnu utils though.
> 
You can easily install lots of prepackaged GNU stuff.  Just get your 
packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com or get the source and compile it.

johnl
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