Or how about "!windows"? That pretty much covers them all... On 1/28/2010 5:25 PM, Jurvis LaSalle wrote: > but it's not linix. how about '*n?x'? > > j/k :-P > > JL > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:22 PM, 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
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