Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:38:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows tech article? Message-ID: <20010410103831.B15185@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3AD319C0.7D273729@penix.org>; from "Paul Halliday" on Tue Apr 10 10:33:36 GMT 2001 References: <3AD319C0.7D273729@penix.org>
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In the last episode (Apr 10), Paul Halliday said: > Taken from: > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp > > "FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, > was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login, > Microsoft Outlook_ Express, and Web-based content delivery tasks" > > Is it just me or is this statement completely incorrect? A "Unix-like > system" I always thought It was UNIX. Similar to Linux? I always > believed that Linux was well, anything but UNIX. Depends on who you expect to be reading the sentence. For non-techies, it is perfect. They have heard of Unix, and know that Linux is one of the more popular unix-type OSes. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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