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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 19 Aug 1995 01:21:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de>,
Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote:
>> Linux and *BSD are unix, regardless of whether it's legal to say so.
>
>Linux is Posix, *BSD ist unix.

Unfortunately, neither is really true.  *Aspects* of both are true,
but not legally or even technically (true 100% POSIX compliance with
everything from 1003.1 to real time is a goal that eludes BOTH camps)

					Jordan