[sdiy] OT: Screw Linux.

[Jeff Farr]

Well! Thanks for all the responses people, I was expecting to be chided for
something so blatantly off topic. Seems my main problem was with the Dell
hardware which occasionaly needs to have the battery removed for a hard
reset of sorts. Things are looking up now!

On 3 Oct 2005 21:40:15 -0400, R. D. Davis <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
>
> Quothe Matt Simpson, from writings of Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:17:17PM
> -0400:
> > and remember that
> > LINUX
> > is *not*
> > UNIX.
>
> That, I'm well aware of---as are most people familiar with Linux.
> Still, Linux looks like a UN*X, works like a UN*X and acts like a
> UN*X, even though, like FreeBSD, it doesn't contain proprietary AT&T
> source code and isn't, technically, UN*X. So, without picking nits,
> it's basically a flavor of UN*X even though it isn't truly UN*X, or,
> with picking nits, and keeping the guardians of the UN*X TM happy,
> it's a UN*X-like operating system. As most UN*X hackers know, Linux
> is obviously far different in many ways from the the "One True UN*X,"
> namely 7th Edition UN*X... but it still has some things in common with
> that. Have I confused anyone yet? :-)
>
> --
> R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: an
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> that we're above Nature & her
> Dangling Spiders other creatures, using dogma to justify such
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