On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:45:45PM +0100, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> > don't want be to restricted to Linux, so if anyone detects a change that can
> > only run on Linux, but not on another GNU system,
> I may be missing something, but there are only two GNU systems aren't
> there; GNU/Linux and the Hurd?
any unix can be turned into a GNU system by installing the GNU extensions.
i guess pauls argument is, that since GNU is (in theory) available
on IRIX, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, UNIX-flavour-of-the-year
using GNU-extensions does not loose much portability.
greetings, martin.
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