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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 19:33:15 GMT
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In <39lofv$q5f@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> vincent@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) writes:

>And not to mention that IBM's AIX has incorporated most(?) BSD features 
>(along with most(?) SVR5 features) - heck, those /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
>directories are a nightmare with all their "compatability links"!!
>
>I worked on AIX for the first time today, and was even (pleasantly)
>surprised that they don't use those idiotic SVR5 r?.d directories
>for starting up - what a pleasure to edit nice little rc.* startup
>files.  :-)  I may even get to like AIX - *shock*  *horror*!  :-)

That's because IBM hasn't bought (yet) a SysVR4 licence :-)

Dan
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