Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: EMC Question

About 10 years ago one very knowledgeable guy told me that Linux
"borrowed" part of the code from Unix.
I told him then that I would never believe in it, considering how many
bright minds were working on it.
But now I'm not that sure...
Alex

Robin Szemeti wrote:

>On Saturday 24 January 2004 19:03, John Delaney wrote:
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>>As I have seen this EMC runs from the BDI CD under the Morphix
>>incarnation of UNIX. Not Linux per se. But the net effect is the
>>same, no need to install any flavor of UNIX on the computer to get it
>>going.
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>For the record ...
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>The 'Live' variant of EMC runs under 'Morphix' .. which is derived from
>Debian Linux, and the Knoppix 'Live Linux Filesystem' .. so most certainly a
>Linux distribution. Morphix is in effect a 'bootable debian linux on CD'
>... with the additon of the realtime patches to the kernel, and the EMC
>packages it becomes EMC :: BDI-Live
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>So .. it is Linux. Whether you consider Linux to be UNIX is an open question.
>See SCO for more details ;)
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