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Author: Ron FordRon Ford Date: Sep 16, 2008 17:51
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:59:17 -0700, Richard Maine posted:
> Ron Ford wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:41:42 -0500, Steven G. Kargl posted:
>
>>> Linux is not Unix.
>>
>> I use linux and unix interchangeable as unWindows OS's. I realize this
>> lacks nuance,
>
> Apparently "lacking nuance" means being just plain wrong. If you want to
> use a general term for the category in question, "Unix" is at least a
> reasonably accurate term, plus or minux some nuances. "Linux" is not;
> that's just plain wrong.
My sysadmin buddy tells me that linux is one of the unices. To see him hop
around on my solaris and ubuntu partitions is to see a virtuoso.
I think what I see in both places is that everything is in a folder.
There's lapack/testing/eig on all these systems, after you "untar" them,
untarring being the kiss of death for a windows install.
>
> I might add that neither of them is even close to being a correct
> catagorization of the general class "unWIndows OS". There are unWIndows
> OSes that have no simillarity to Unix.
... besides being different than the world's most popular OS. Does fortran
offer insight on the varieties of OS's?
--
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than
the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
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