From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 10 8:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B4237B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3AFcWr11630; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:38:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:38:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Paul Halliday Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windows tech article? Message-ID: <20010410103831.B15185@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3AD319C0.7D273729@penix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <3AD319C0.7D273729@penix.org>; from "Paul Halliday" on Tue Apr 10 10:33:36 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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