In what may (or may not) cause a considerable amount of list traffic... $WORK is trying to develop a set of policies around machines used as desktops* that happen to run a linux, solaris, freebsd, etc. as an operating system. (If you're interested in the policies, they're mostly just best practices for linux machines put down in official form)
$WORK would like to identify the ideal phrase that lumps all those operating systems together. One individual suggested that you couldn't really just say UNIX, because Linux isn't UNIX. It would not include BSDs as well. You couldn't say POSIX-compliant, because can't you install some binaries on windows that make it POSIX-compliant, etc. Valid points for sure. My question: Is there a way that I can identify all these UNIX-ish operating systems without specifically naming the brands? (Linux, Unix, BSD) What do you think? *Desktop is a oddly defined. Think "this is my primary computer that i access the internet on and check email on" _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
