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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:42:52 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <5s$kBctUoRB@subloch.swb.de>, Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote:
>
>> 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?

    Heh, you need to ask?  ;-)
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org