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Re: What if Sun wrote the Solaris kernel as a drop-in replacement for the Linux kernel?

____/ Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> on Wednesday 20 June 2007 23:32 :
\____

> 
> 
> stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>>One objective differentiator is that Solaris has Posix conformance
>>while Linux does not.
> 
> Which POSIX?
> 
> POSIX.1-1990 / IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1 / ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990?
> 
> POSIX.2 / IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 / ISO-IEC 9945-2:1993?
> 
> POSIX.1b / POSIX.4 / IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 ISO-IEC 9945-1:1996?
> 
> POSIX.1c / IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995?
> 
> POSIX.1-1996 (POSIX.1 + POSIX.1b + POSIX.1c)?
> 
> POSIX.1d / IEEE Std 1003.1c-1999?
> 
> POSIX.1g / IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000?
> 
> POSIX.1j / IEEE Std 1003.1j-2000?
> 
> POSIX.1-2001 / C99 (POSIX.1 + POSIX.2 + SUS)?
> 
> POSIX.1-2001+XSI / UNIX 03 / SUSv3?
> 
> POSIX.1-2003 / TC1?
> 
> POSIX.1-2004 / TC2?

Open implementation that permits grafting as-is and modifying (/a la/ GPL)
resolves many of these issues. 

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