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From: souva@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
In-Reply-To: maulwurf@subloch.swb.de's message of 18 Aug 1995 11:11:00 +0200
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In article <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de> maulwurf@subloch.swb.de
(Stefan Huerter) writes:

   Linux is Posix, *BSD ist unix.


Are you sure that Linux got an official Posix certificate? Else it is
as Posix as NetBSD. 

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis

-- 
 MS-DOS is the worst text adventure game I have ever played: poor vocabulary,
                       weak parser and a boring storyline.