[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems
Edward Ned Harvey
bblisa3 at nedharvey.com
Fri Jan 29 05:37:40 EST 2010
> Amen brother.
>
> Just call them all UNIX. The powers that be @ $WORK probably won't
> know
> or care about the technical distinctions.
Some people call OSX a Unix. I say: For shame. ;-)
IMHO, you can't be called a unix, if you have a case-insensitive filesystem,
your config settings are stored in a proprietary format in a proprietary
location instead of using /etc, you have no concept of package selection or
package management, and you're a single-user operating system that cannot
allow multiple logins even if you try.
That ain't worthy of being called unix! ;-) That's like installing cygwin,
and saying windows is unix.
Oh well, end rant. ;-)
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