Re: Is Linux Unix?

[furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ryo Furue)]

Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<2lhXD-6aE-7@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> Ryo Furue wrote:
[...]
> > In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl.  That was kind of scary to me :)
> > The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc.
[...]
>    I don't think you can expect a really old version of debian to 
> support new software. If you want to use new software use new software.

Excuse me, but I interpret what you say in two ways:
1) The current stable version (which I use) is "old";
2) You thought I was using an obsolete version (potate or earlier).
I don't know which is the correct interpretation, although
your reference to "unstable" seems to suggest (1).

I'm using the "newest" stable version. :)

>    I don't see how this is different in windows or redhat or anything 
> else.

But, vendors don't sell Windows software that doesn't work on
the current version of Windows XP.   Perhaps, in your perception,
the unstable version of Debian is "the" current version? :)
If that be so, the name "unstable" is misleading, which has scared
me off thus far.

Ryo