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From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux or BSD?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 12 Apr 1996 03:10:49 GMT
Organization: The House of RetroComputing
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Tom (lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Linux is
: POSIX compliant and does one or two things different than BSD.  All Linux

Can somebody please verify this? I mean, NetBSD says it is _almost_
POSIX, with a few differences because of POSIX brain damage. Did
Linux put in that brain damage?

What does Linux *lack* as far as POSIX stuff?
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