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Date: 26 Aug 1995 00:36:00 +0200
From: maulwurf@subloch.swb.de (Stefan Huerter)
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Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
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Guckux J.T.
jtc@cygnus.com (J.T. Conklin) wrote:
> > Linux is Posix, *BSD ist unix.
> When you say ``Linux is Posix'', are you trying to imply that *BSD is
> not? Or have you just bought into the mistaken idea that many Linux
> qusers seem to have that *BSD is not interested in conforming to
> standards?
I know the implementation of the POSIX 1003.1 standard in FreeBSD and
NetBSD. :)
> As far as I know, neither Linux or *BSD have passed a POSIX
> conformance test. So strictly speaking, Linux is not POSIX.
So, what is Linux? nothing?
Bye
Stefan