On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > >The thing about all that, is that it forces the machine to be closer and > >closer to a linux machine, until eventually, it becomes nothing more than a > >linux machine with a user-invisible solaris kernel. > > > > > > Gong! -- You violated my pet peeve -- one of the two[1] flagrant abuses > of the word Linux. > > Your punishment: 1000 sentences: > > Nexenta boxes are Debian/Nevada machines, they are not "Linux machines". > Nexenta boxes are Debian/Nevada machines, they are not "Linux machines".
Pffft... everyone here understands what is meant, and it's a lot easier than trying to describe, closer to 'one of those types of machines that is based around what is commonly called a "linux distribution", and/or a Linux Standards Base compliant system in addition to adhering to all the system-administration admin level issues, which may or may not be specified in the LSB mentioned hereabove :-) > [1] The other one is using "Linux Community" to refer to all users > and implementors of open-source and open operating systems -- well, that isnt even close to being accurate :-P whereas mine was clearly just a contraction :-) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
