On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> This is true of all non-linux platforms though, there is a lot of poorly
> developed software out there that considers Linux, and not posix, a
> target platform. This really bugs the crap out of me sometimes. For
*snork*
very few unix app developers targetted posix afaict. when i was in
uni most unix s/w ran on sunos. slowly that became solaris and then
linux (linux on intel usually). the fact that app developers are not
targetting solaris/posix says more about sun's stewardship of unix over
the past decade then it does about app developers. they did very little
to advance the state of the art in unix in that time.
kevin
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