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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?) Date: 3 Dec 1994 20:09:08 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3bqj94$f6k@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <1994Dec2.034142.18344@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3bn21t$qn6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes: > >Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote: > >> Linux Is Not UniX > >This is true. Are any of the freely distributable BSD based >systems Unix? The manner in which you put the comment caused >me to think you were infering that FreeBSD _was_ Unix, whereas Apologies to those who had too much caffiene... :-) I am an incurable smart-ass, so my comment was a lame attempt at the double-meaning.. (how do you spell that phrase?) For those that didn't get it: Linux Is Not UniX L inux I s N ot U ni X L I N U X LINUX Ok??? No, Linux isn't Unix, FreeBSD isn't, NetBSD isn't.. none of them claim to be or *WANT* to be *real unix* they are "unix-like". -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================