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! <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3 Oct 2005 21:40:15 -0400, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. D. Davis</b> <<a href="mailto:rdd@rddavis.org">rdd@rddavis.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quothe Matt Simpson, from writings of Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:17:17PM -0400:<br>> and remember that<br>> LINUX<br>> is *not*<br>> UNIX.<br><br>That, I'm well aware of---as are most people familiar with Linux.<br>
Still, Linux looks like a UN*X, works like a UN*X and acts like a<br>UN*X, even though, like FreeBSD, it doesn't contain proprietary AT&T<br>source code and isn't, technically, UN*X. So, without picking nits,<br>it's basically a flavor of UN*X even though it isn't truly UN*X, or,
<br>with picking nits, and keeping the guardians of the UN*X TM happy,<br>it's a UN*X-like operating system. As most UN*X hackers know, Linux<br>is obviously far different in many ways from the the "One True UN*X,"
<br>namely 7th Edition UN*X... but it still has some things in common with<br>that. Have I confused anyone yet? :-)<br><br>--<br>
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