Re: New Member to list....

["Joe Leonard" <Joe.Leonard@MCI.Com>]

Thanks for the responses....I can certainly say i'm now
motivated to do some more digging on the points both of 
you have brought up!!

joe

On Jul 21, 12:07am, Brad Pepers wrote:
> Subject: Re: New Member to list....
> > On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Joe Leonard wrote:
> > 
> > > I am also (just now) installing Linux (intel version of
> > > Unix) on a 340 Mb hd just to gain some experience with 
> > > Unix. (yeah, i know....i'm a glutton for punishment!!)
> > 
> > Linux is not Unix and Unix is not Linux.  What Linux is is a 
freeware
> > operating system that looks, feels, and acts like Unix, and comes in 
any
> > number of flavors that are kludgy at best, and really floow no
> > standardizations.  If you want Unix on an Intel based machine, get 
ahold
> > of either BSD, or FreeBSD (which is in fact free, like Linux) or 
better
> > yet, Solaris for x86, which are both true blue versions of Unix 
which run
> > on Intel boxes.
> 
> I will *not* get into any flame war over this but I totally disagree.
> Linux is as much Unix as anything else like SCO, BSD, ...  In my 
opinion
> it is better in many ways (faster, better support, ...).  It is in no
> way kludgy and follows many standards (there is a group that is 
obtaining
> the various standards needed to use the Unix name and I believe they
> already have some of the Posix standards and FIPS - Linus recently
> incorporated the changes and the only ones left were for some of the
> stranger requirements).  Linux kicks Solaris' ass speed wise (as it
> also does SCO).
> 
> Anyone who want clarification please email me about it.  I really 
don't
> want a flame war but wanted to give a separate opinion.
> 
> Please do not take a single opinion one way or another.  Look around 
on
> the web for info and talk to lots of people.
> 
> > -Mike
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Brad Pepers