Re: Is Linux Unix?

From: Paul Smith (pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com)
Date: 07/21/04

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    %% John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> writes:

      js> and another
      js> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
      js> It is not ready for production use, as there are still many bugs and
      js> missing features.

    While not ready for production, it is bootable and working in a
    developer/hacker/early adopter kind of way.

    If you're bored with tweaking your Linux-based Debian box and want to
    play with/try out something funky and new, GNU/Hurd is (I think) ready
    for that. But keep your Linux partitions around for work time :). 

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