Newbie Lists And more, was; Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Toby Fisher]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I just want to make one small comment. My understanding is that unix
> is a family of operating systems, and that GNU/Linux is a member of
> that family, just like Sunos is a member of that family. Thus, unix
> and GNU/Linux are not separate operatingsystems, which you seem to be
> implying in your post.

Actually, Greg, technically speaking, Linux is not a member o the Unix
family.  Ok, so it's just picking hairs, but it has not fully complied
with the relevant standards, and although the contraventions are small,
they do exist so in the strictest sense, Linux is not a unix, or at least,
wasn't quite recently.

Cheers.

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