From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 24 19: 6:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC5A14C81 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA21222; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:08:13 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:08:13 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Gregory Sutter Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Generic Unix term? In-Reply-To: <19990223200542.L27934@orcrist.mediacity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote: > There's BSD, Linux, AIX, SCO, Solaris, Citrix, etc, but is there a > single, non-copyrighted, non-trademarked term describing all systems > that are based on or function like Unix? Although I kinda like Brett's Generix suggestion, I've always used the word UN*X to denote a non-specific UNIX-like operating system. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message