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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 21:25:21 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jtc@cygnus.com (J.T. Conklin) wrote:
] As far as I know, neither Linux or *BSD have passed a POSIX
] conformance test.  So strictly speaking, Linux is not POSIX.

Neither have *officially* passed a conformance test... ie: been
tested by an approved certification laboratory.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.