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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Linux or BSD? Date: 15 Apr 1996 11:35:49 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ktcal$ep@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4jprsf$lo9@classic.eng.octel.com> <4kcofg$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <4kkhjp$dfr@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4kliik$og7@cebaf4.cebaf.gov> <Pine.Sola.3.91.960412131215.15002B-100000@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2994 comp.os.linux.development.system:21343 "Kueh, Anthony" <kueh@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu> writes: >If you guys look in comp.os.linux.announce .. I believe there was a post >regarding the official validation of Linux in regards to POSIX >specifications. Linux is now officially 100% POSIX complient. This sentence, as it stands here, is wrong. Just one Linux distribution has been validated. Since most of the Posix compliance is a userland thing, this is quite a big difference for Linux, where everybody is hacking his own distribution around a centrally maintained kernel. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j