[sdiy] OT: Screw Linux.

Matt Simpson mr.threv at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 03:56:41 CEST 2005


On 3 Oct 2005 21:40:15 -0400, R. D. Davis <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
> 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?  :-)

I've heard Linux called
"Fischer Price My First Unix"

tee hee.
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~mt
sonic alchemist
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