[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[Brian O'Neill]

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: 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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