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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 1 Sep 1995 00:31:13 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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Message-ID: <425k8h$7un@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <5s$kBctUoRB@subloch.swb.de>,
Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote:
>> > Linux is Posix, *BSD ist unix.
BZZT! NetBSD and FreeBSD are UNIX-like.
^^^^
Linux is also a UNIX-like system.
>I know the implementation of the POSIX 1003.1 standard in FreeBSD and
>NetBSD. :)
What exactly do you mean? That you've read every line of code from top to
bottom?
>So, what is Linux? nothing?
No. Linux is Linux, a freely-redistributable UNIX-like system. Of course,
in the Linux world, the term `Linux' is non-deterministic. _Which_ Linux
are _you_ talking about? (This is, BTW, one of Linux's most fundamental
problems.)
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