From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 23:12:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA10550 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:12:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10543 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:12:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.4/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id XAA24844 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id BAA17641; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:08:25 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603160708.BAA17641@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: A New Era for Linux has Arrived! (fwd) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 01:08:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603152136.OAA14028@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 15, 96 02:36:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > Linux is POSIX.1 Certified! > --------------------------- > The Certification has been the result of a large and costly development > effort over a considerable period of time. > > Large : Problems, bugs, code instabilities and enhancements have been > made to libraries, the kernel, the compiler and other parts of > the system to pass Certication Testing. It took a considerable > period of time to get Linux to a point at which the > Certification work could begin. I would at least hope that the enhancements outnumber the problems, bugs and code instabilities they added to the system to pass the certification tests :-). If they keep that up, we should have no problem winning over Linux users! -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"