[Novalug] OT MacBook

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Sat Aug 16 20:28:25 EDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> 
> sorry i knew that, somehow linux tripped lightly off my finger tips 
> rather than unix ( i believe i am correct that bsd is a flavor of 
> unix)

With all unix code, as in AT&T derived and licensed unix code,
replaced by BSD derived code so it could be released under
the BSD license.

Is something that contains no unix still unix?
Probably can't be "legally" called unix,
but if it walks like a duck ...

> 
> 
> DAC >On Aug 16, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> DAC >> 
> DAC >> i would much much much prefer having someone who does not use linux get a
> DAC >> mac than to have them get a windoze machine. one the whole the mac is
> DAC >> very
> DAC >> linuxy because its OS is built on a version of linux (as I am sure most
> DAC >> of you know).
> DAC >
> DAC >Cheers,
> DAC >David
> DAC >
> DAC >
> DAC >David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
> DAC >Cafaro's Ramblings:  www.cafaro.net
> DAC >
> DAC >
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