Solaris

trickykid · 04-24-2003, 09:52 AM

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Originally posted by Sadie Newlinux
Seriously, though, while I knew that Linux was a spin-off from UNIX written, originally, by Linus Torvalds (I hope I spelled that right), I didn't know much about UNIX itself. Thanks for all the info!

Here's a great link to the creators pages regarding the creation of Unix.

http://www.bell-labs.com/about/histo...henomenon.html

Sadie Newlinux · 04-24-2003, 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by trickykid
Here's a great link to the creators pages regarding the creation of Unix.

http://www.bell-labs.com/about/histo...henomenon.html

Thanks I'll put it on my reading list! (Right now I'm wading through HOWTOs lol)

GAVollink · 04-24-2003, 10:36 AM

Coming in quite late - and out of turn - just some background on StarOffice:

StarOffice was originally written by "StarDivision" out of germany. The original company (at stardivision.de) was wholly purchased by Sun Microsystems to be run as the center of Sun's JavaONE "solution" (full Java environment with all necessary tools - regardless of underlying OS/Hardware).

Since that initiative still may happen, Sun did the Free Software world a big favor by spinning off OpenOffice just prior to closing the doors on StarOffice to re-focus StarOffice as a commercial endeavor.

cyberskye · 05-14-2003, 02:13 PM

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Seriously, though, while I knew that Linux was a spin-off from UNIX written, originally, by Linus Torvalds (I hope I spelled that right), I didn't know much about UNIX itself. Thanks for all the info!

Actually, a 'spinoff' of minix., an OS written by one of his teachers as a learning tool.