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David Allan wrote: > +1 > > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Tal Cohen wrote: > >> *NIX >> >> Tal >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Patrick Cable >> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bblisa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >> > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
