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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:30:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Robert Clark <robertc@rio.pii.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        rssh@grad.kiev.ua, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>, Randall Senn <randall_senn@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@linux.org, www@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unix vs unix-like and unix-type
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990206091926.14672A-100000@rio.pii.com>
In-Reply-To: <36BC4C50.B2AE6489@uk.radan.com>

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I think they've changed their name to Interix or something like that.

I'm sure they were tired of the Ninja-Attack-Lawyers going after them for
putting "NT" in their company name.

I ran OpenNT for about one day. It is the only piece of software I've ever
run under NT that can so thoroughly wedge a system.

It feels really wrong to slap a *POSIX-Adapter* on top of the dubious NT
*kernel* and think of it as UNIX. I think the ROSS sparcplug aproach is
the best.

On an unrelated note, I see a mention that the new Linux kernel may
feature support for a graphical console. (aka without X)

I'd love to see a *BSD based OS with a tightly bound graphical interface,
that doesn't carry the *X* baggage.

If it doesn't happen, has anyone out there taken a good look into "Be"?
I'm hoping its not just a matter of a disgruntled ex-Apple employee taking
the MAC braindamage into the streets.

[RC]

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:

> Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
> > 
> > It was not NT, but OpenNT --  NT + new posix subsystem.
> > 
> > look at http://www.opennt.com for details (sorry, I have no
> > time to check this URL, so it can be incorrect).
> > 
> 
> I've just tried to take a look. It's a valid URL, but guess what? I got
> a message "No response. The server may be down.....". :-)
> 
> Now what were we saying about NT and stability?
> 
> 
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