Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jun 2007 20:30 UTC, submitted by Nitsudima
"The Free Software community is well known for its diversity. This is most obvious at the application level, but even exists in the context of operating systems. David Chisnall takes a break from UNIX-derivatives and explores some of the more esoteric options." Note: From experience, I can say that the author's claim that "Haiku is more or less ready for their 1.0 release in terms of features" is a bit overambitious.
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RE[3]: UNIX-likes boring?
by Spellcheck on Tue 26th Jun 2007 01:10
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Third-party compatibility layers obviate the need for in-system POSIX support. When Windows did come with its own POSIX layers, it worked as in the other systems you mentioned. However, as I understand it, it was a small and ageing subset and eventually removed to prevent confusion with any usefully-broad or up-to-date implementation that MSFT didn't care to construct.
RE[4]: UNIX-likes boring?
by twenex on Wed 27th Jun 2007 23:47
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Well, there is a difference between having POSIX compatibility (Windows) and being POSIX-compliant (BeOS, QNX, most other UNIX-y OSes). I'm no programmer, but I know that most of the stuff ported to BeOS that ran fine natively would require a compatibility layer like Cygwin to work in Windows, if it would even run at all.