[TriLUG] UNIX architecture page needed

[Cristobal Palmer]

> I'm not sure what this means.

If any of y'all know something about UNIX architecture, please do
start writing the en.wikipedia.org "UNIX architecture" entry. NOTE
that a one-liner entry which was written by a Linux snob was already
deleted.

The original poorly-authored entry conflated the two, and it was
deleted for that reason.

Sorry for the confusion.

-CMP

On 12/13/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/05, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Especially since Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy" came out, I've been feeling like
> > I have less external pressure to poke under the "hood" since stuff
> > mostly Just Works. That's partly why I've pestered people to
> > contribute to our TriLUG wiki--I want to learn!
> >
> > Since I haven't done so in awhile, I'd like to implore the TriLUG
> > community once again to take up the task of adding to and editing the
> > "Linux Essential Knowledge" page on the wiki.
> >
> > Not your cup of tea? How about this:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UNIX_architecture&action=edit
> >
> > "UNIX architecture" needs an entry in en.wikipedia.org (authored by
> > someone who can do it justice)! NB: this needs to be _UNIX_
> > architecture, not just Linux architecture. A page that had a blithe
> > pointer to "Linux architecture" was already deleted
>
> I'm not sure what this means.
>
> Unix is a particular operating system originally trademarked by AT&T,
> and now IINM by SCO.
>
> Linux (or GNU Linux is you adhere to Stallman's position) is not Unix,
> neither is GNU (which after all stand for GNU is Not Unix.
>
> There is also POSIX which is an IEEE standard for the APIs of
> "Unix-like" operating systems.
>
>
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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