Re: [chat] Linux isn't Linux? Debian seems to think it is....

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:41:28 +1000 Zhasper wrote:
> <quote who="Jamie Wilkinson">
> 
> >This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
> >># uname -a
> >>AIX stlwmyqy-ri01 1 5 00066B2A4C00
> >
> >Is that suppose to make sense?

Asking if AIX makes sense makes me laugh.

> It makes perfect sense to me

Saying it does makes me laugh even more. :-)

> well, except for the "1 5 00066B2A4C00", that's a little odd.

I'm willing to go with what the GNU uname manpage has to say about it.

> I can't tell you what the rest of it means though, because then I'd
> have to kill you.

It's an OS identifier, and a hostname that's just in keeping with the
rest of the OS. *nod*

-- 
Pete