[rhelv6-beta-list] My first experiences with RHEL6 beta

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Jun 16 13:53:26 UTC 2010


John McNulty <johnmcn1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Small correction. LVM was incorporated into OSF/1 in '89
> from IBM, not DEC.  DEC included it in the first few
> releases of DEC OSF/1 but it wasn't feature complete and was
> buggy as hell. Eventually it got dropped in favour of LSM.  

Ahhh, why am I not surprised that OSF was involved at some point.  ;)

In any case, great info.  From now on I'll be a little more generic
in my "SIDE NOTE."  I only bring it up because I regularly get people
lambast Linux (Sistina) for the nomenclature approach, and I merely say,
"it was based on an existing standard, from Digital I believe, but don't
quote me."


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