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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 19 Aug 1995 01:21:33 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12 Message-ID: <413eat$e94@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> <DDGsoo.F3D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:792 comp.os.linux.advocacy:17150 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4730 In article <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de>, Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote: >> Linux and *BSD are unix, regardless of whether it's legal to say so. > >Linux is Posix, *BSD ist unix. Unfortunately, neither is really true. *Aspects* of both are true, but not legally or even technically (true 100% POSIX compliance with everything from 1003.1 to real time is a goal that eludes BOTH camps) Jordan