Scott C. Best, 2001-04-18 19:58 -0700
>Mike:
>
> I agree: a potentially watershed article. Quoting
>from a juicy bit:
><snip>
> Cool. This will make my echowall porting efforts
>go that much smoother. ;)
Scott,
I like the idea, but not who proposed it. Inder Singh's opinions concern
me. If I understand his definition below SCO and Solaris are Linux too. If
this standard will certify a proprietary OS because of API compatibility
I'm against it.
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2016752176.html
~ Thus, one answer to the question "Is it Linux?" which may be the most
~ meaningful is that it is Linux if it can run Linux applications, i.e.
~ defining Linux in terms of its APIs/ABIs. This is the aspect that is
~ most important to developers of Linux applications as well as to most
~ embedded Linux developers. It is key to preventing Linux from
~ fragmenting the way that Unix did.
~
~ From this perspective, products like LynxOS from LynuxWorks, which has
~ a high degree of compliance with the Linux APIs, and will support the
~ ABIs in a future release, are effectively more true to Linux than some
~ of the open source solutions like RTLinux and Zentropix which are
~ derived from Linux, but break the Linux APIs to provide real-time
~ performance.
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Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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