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Re: A83: Include...
In accordance with the prophecy, Daniel M Church uttered:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Linus Akesson wrote:
>>
>> In accordance with the prophecy, Olle Hedman uttered:
>>
>>
>>> James Matthews wrote:
>>>> And you mean www.redhat.org =) I think...isn't that the name of a unix
>>>> flavour?
>>
>>> Yes I mean redhat.. and .com even :)
>>> And no, it isn't a unix flavour, it is a Linux distribution. (Linux is a unix
>>> flavour though) That is, it is the OS Linux, which is free, boundled together
>>> with a lot of software, both free and sometimes nonfree, and includeing an
>>> installation program, that does all the dirty work of setting up stuff, like the
>>> filesystem and configurations, for you.
>>> You don't need to get a distribution to get linux on your computer, but it makes
>>> it a heck of a lot easier.
>>
>>> //Olle
>>
>> Linux is NOT a Unix flavour. That's like stating that Windows 95 is a MacOS
>> flavour, just because they both multitask and have windows and icons.
> Win95 /IS/ a MacOS flavor. Ever notice how it's taken after MacOS in
> practially everything?
MacOS multitasking is cooperative. Win95 multitasking is preemptive. MacOS
files are split into one data fork and one resource fork. Win95 files are the
data and a three letter file type. Inter-process communication, filesystem
layout, threading, window-related event handling etc. etc. etc. are all very
different.
Keep the basic design, the bare bones, the layout of the data structures, the
architectural ideas and implementations, but change minor details such as the
appearence, and you get a flavour. Keep the appearence but change the inners
and you get a lookalike.
Linus
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