[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00cf0d85$0$1490$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Does anyone really believe that Linux isn't a Unix ? 
> 
> Was Digital's Ultrix considered a Unix even though it wasn't "Unix"
> compliant ?

   According to some of my customers, ULTRIX wasn't "real" UNIX.  To
   get "real" UNIX you had to buy Sun or HP.  In thier mind DEC couldn't
   possibly produce a "real" UNIX.  At that time none of them were
   compliant to any standard other than having AT&T's orginal UNIX in
   thier heritage.

> Sorry folks, But Linux is just another Unix to me.  It has a Unix user
> interface, unix commands etc.

   So if I load up my VMS 6.x system with the POSIX toolkit, and set
   your CLI to the POSIX shell, is VMS a UNIX to you?
   
   The GNU code that makes the Linux kernel into a useable OS has lots
   of features that the corresponding UNIX tools don't have.  I use
   these all the time, but I don't have to have any actual UNIX around
   to do so.  I use them on Linux and Windows (mostly via cygwin) all
   the time, and I've used them on VMS a lot.  And I miss those features 
   when I get stuck with the UNIX versions of the tools.

   So no, to me Linux is not a UNIX.  It's a UNIX look-alike.