On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:16:11AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:27:15PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:06:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > > On 06/29/2011 09:00 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:55:11PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > > > >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <[email protected]> > > > >> > > > >> This is the generic family this OS belongs to, for example Linux, > > > >> Windows, > > > >> Solaris, UNIX etc. > > > > > > >> @@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ > > > >> <short-id>openbsd4</short-id> > > > >> <name>OpenBSD 4</name> > > > >> <version>4.9</version> > > > >> + <family>UNIX</family> > > > >> <vendor>OpenBSD Project</vendor> > > > >> > > > >> <devices> > > > > > > > > Perhaps we should let BSD have a family of 'BSD' ? > > > > > > And if we do that, would we classify MacOS as BSD? > > > > > > Also, is MirBSD in the list of known OS yet? I have successfully > > > installed that BSD flavor in a VM in the past. > > > > Eric's point above is a good one. What is "Family"? It sounds like > > it is the historical derivation of the OS, but that's not very useful > > except to Unix history geeks. > > 'Family' is basically a group of related distros. > > So, eg, every Red Hat Enterprise Linux release is in family 'rhel' > > Every Fedora release is family 'fedora', etc > > It isn't really about UNIX history here. It is more a grouping of > a vendor's products.
OK, but ... In that case I wouldn't want to put OpenBSD in a "UNIX" family. These days "UNIX" just describes a trademark that anyone can get if they have enough money. "Family" sounds like the organization or person responsible for development of the (kernel|whole system). In which case OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD and Solaris should all be in different families. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
