[ale] More random thoughts...

Fri Feb 22 12:41:23 EST 2002

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> 
> Is Linux a threat to Unix?  If Linux gains widespread acceptance, is there a
> danger that large amounts of non-portable code will be written for it?  Is
> this already happening?  Or is Linux close enough to POSIX compliance that
> it won't be a problem?

I think the latter is most likely.  As long as anything popular written for
Linux is OSS/FS, the other Unices can port it.  Unless something seriously
deviant arrives in the kernel level stuff, it will port, and POSIX is keeping
that level fairly well-defined.

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