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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2969 comp.os.linux.misc:20746 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Message-ID: <CtKBJ5.77B@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 19:30:40 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <Ct5qpn.G6E@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU><9407221206.29@rmkhome.com> <DHOLLAND.94Jul25171448@scws33.harvard.edu> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 35 dholland@scws33.harvard.edu (David Holland) writes: > > : Linux is the choice of a GNU Generation >This kind of nonsense benefits nobody. Whoever posted it, can it. >Anyway. >rmk@rmkhome.com's message of Fri, 22 Jul 1994 17:06:28 GMT said: > > Except that the systems that make up gnu.ai.mit.edu are all BSDish > > in one way or another - AIX, HPUX, BSD, etc. >AIX is BSDish? Linux is more BSDish than AIX is. AIX 3.2 is like a SVR2 + BSD4.4 converted to POSIX with some standards like X/OPEN and AES (Application Environment Standard) and big wholoping of IBM thrown on top. BSD components of AIX 3.2 include TCP/IP networking, misc. API stuff (e.g. select(2)), and some user-land stuff like vmstat (they have sar(1M), too; their ps(1) accepts both AT&T and BSD options; etc) Linux is about the only UNIX-alike that doesn't base their TCP/IP code on BSD's. >Unless AIX has been seriously revamped in the last couple of years, >that is... Was the last AIX you used AIX 2.x, AIX 3.1, or AIX 3.2? >-- > - David A. Holland | "The right to be heard does not automatically > dholland@husc.harvard.edu | include the right to be taken seriously." -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen