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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 16 Jan 1996 20:14:56 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) wrote:
]
] Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote:
] : You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you? They still
] : look amazingly slive to me ...
]
] Not compared to Linux! Their are alot of talented BSD people who could
] be helping the Linux group but instead just in the UNIX tradition you
] have all these different variants of free UNIX.
Trying to start a "GPL vs. UCB license" thread here as well?
Limit yourself to redefining "free" in the advocacy groups,
please.
] Luckily Caldera choose Linux as most people are, and more
] importantly Linux trys to be POSIX compliant meaning their
] is no BSD or SYSV bias!
POSIX has a large SVR4 bias. It's not an entirely bad thing, but
it does mean a strict implementation incorrectly fails to deliver
HUP signals to members of the process group when the controlling
TTY experiences on-to-off DTR. There is a lot of crap in POSIX...
not that BSD and SVR4 don't also strive for compliance. At least
SVR4 has undergone certification testing. When is the Linux
community going to pony up the $50,000 for the NIST/PCTS run and
POSIX certification by an approved testing laboratory?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.