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- From: dawes@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (D H Dawes)
- Subject: Re: What Intel U*ix OS is this group aimed at?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.233505.23233@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <LIBOVE.92Dec14170609@libove.alf.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:35:05 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <LIBOVE.92Dec14170609@libove.alf.dec.com> libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:
- >What Intel (80386, i486, etc) U*ix-based Operating System is
- >this newsgroup aimed at?
- >
- >The two postings I've seen so far are for Linux only, which
- >is not necessarily transmittable to general i386 (and other
- >Intel-based) U*ix'es at all.
- >
- >If this is only for Linux, please change the group name
- >appropriately.
-
- The group is aimed at any U*ix-based OS on Intel i386 hardware. It's
- just coincidence that the first two postings were from Linux users.
- XFree86 (for example) is supported on SVR3, SVR4, Linux, 386BSD, and many
- issues are common -- hence this group.
-
- David
-