[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[Jurvis LaSalle]

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: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Cable
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:04 PM
>> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
>> 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"
>> 
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