um... somewhat on topic...

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Thu Sep 24 23:04:08 1998

At 09:17 PM 9/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi. This is only slightly off topic, for what are old computers without old
>operating systems? :)
>
>I just finished installing caldera linux on my unix machine in the hopes of
>plugging the holes the spammers were using to forward mail through my site.
>What IS it with these newer distributions that they have to MOVE everything,
>change how ps works, and four million annoying little things? Look, Unix
>has been around since the 60s, why do they feel they need to or should move
>things around at this late date?
>--

Well... one consideration might be that Linux is not Unix... It was
designed to look similar to the user, but that is pretty much where the
similarity ends...

-jim

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