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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!vixie!nnrp!vixie From: vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 22 Aug 1995 01:11:46 GMT Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 17 Message-ID: <VIXIE.95Aug21181146@wisdom.home.vix.com> References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <5s7t-3RzoRB@subloch.swb.de> <413eat$e94@agate.berkeley.edu> <413it4$jhs@sundog.tiac.net> <419mjv$q91@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: wisdom.home.vix.com In-reply-to: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de's message of 21 Aug 1995 12:19:43 +0200 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:824 comp.os.linux.advocacy:17705 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4900 >You won't be very happy to restrict all your doing to that minimal >subset that is defined by Posix. On the contrary, I am very happy whenever I can do this. It means I can write a source file and compile it on BSD, SVR4, VMS, WinNT, and OS/2. Very nice. Not all the features I'd like are present in POSIX. But they're finalizing a "sockets" interface that will give me most of what's currently missing. If not for FIPS and POSIX, SVR4 would not have reliable signals or job control. Elegance and completeness was never POSIX's goal. You're right in that much. -- Paul Vixie La Honda, CA "Illegitimi non carborundum." <paul@vix.com> pacbell!vixie!paul (dont let the bastards grind you down)