-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:35:41PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 19:51 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > The original GNU development platform, that is correct. Even tho > > you are refering to SunOS (prior to 4.1). > > Well, yes, a lot of GNU was developed prior. But Linus based a lot > of his decisions on later versions of the early '90s. So, there is no corelation, since Linux is not a GNU project :) (let the flamewar begin). > > No, not LSB. It is another standard, much older than that. > > ... > > I'll disagree with you on this as soon as I find the standard I'm > > talking about. > > ... > > As I said, I was not talking about LSB, let alone 2.1. It is a standard > > that even AIX (from IBM) follows, even tho I'm not sure about Solaris. > > I would suppose it does, tho. I'll find it ... Eventually. > > It if applies to AIX, but not Solaris, then I give up? As I said, it is not that it doesn't apply to Solaris. It is just that I can't say that, since I don't know. > I'll believe you if you can show System-V documentation from AT&T > that matches _all_ of the perpetual licensees from their standardization > efforts of 1986+. But I have a feeling that AIX, HP/UX, Digital/Tru64 > and many others aren't going to match either. Not from AT&T ehehehe > > I know it is not. This is just to clarify a technical point that > > is of interest for us all. A point that we don't agree uppon, and > > we are both trying to find solid enough arguments to clear a > > missunderstanding. > > Regardless, at this point, Debian, Solaris and several other, > System-V style inits _differ_ with Red Hat and this "UNIX-like" > standard. That was my point, there is no "standard." Okey. We are disgressing here. I agree with you that the inits are different. In every conceivable way. I'm just talking about runlevels ?) > > You can rest assured I don't take anything as a personal attack > > easily. I always tend to consider the other person is trying to > > help me understand something better. Have no worries about it :) > > Let me make a even more generic summary. Standarization or no standarization, > > Linux Distros do have different runlevel characteristic, and that > > should be taken into consideration. I'll conceed defeat on that point. > > As for the standarization, I'm still looking for the standard, > > so I'll wait until my memory is proven to be wrong, which won't > > be the first time. > > Actually, if you find it it will be very useful to me as well. > It would be a thorn in the side of many distros, even if all of > the perpetual licensees didn't agree to it. I will. Eventually. I just need time to look for it, but I'm in the middle of 2 big projects right now, so it might take a few days. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCn6EEpdyWzQ5b5ckRAsxJAJ47im88MH+P4pyPtWZR5iPba969/wCgjMqr vnn/Eqn9CTFei9GtVuZWdLc= =VKQ4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----