heads up, folks: random vnc (remote desktop) attempts

[Matthew Flaschen]

Christopher Chan wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:54:54 -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Does Canonical provide anything similar to Cygwin?
>>>>       
>>> Yes. Ubuntu :-)
>>>
>>> I know, I know... I just couldn't resist :-)
>>>     
>> What do you (Norberto Bensa) mean by "providing anything similar to 
>> Cygwin"? Cygwin's purpose is to provide POSIX environment (i.e. Unix/
>> Linux environment) to Windows. Since Ubuntu is 100% Linux, it already 
>> fully POSIX. I think you might have meant whether there is a program that 
>> provide Windows' Environment in Ubuntu, in that case it is "wine".
>>
>>   
> I beg to differ. Linux is not fully posix. Any UNIX operating system is 
> fully posix but not GNU/Linux.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

I think you're misunderstanding that page.  GNU/Linux is not /certified/
as POSIX.  Certification requires you pay several fees
(http://posixcertified.ieee.org/posix-fee-schedule-1.0.pdf) and pass
conformance tests.  Obviously, those tests don't cover everything, and
certified implementations are no more guaranteed to be perfect than
uncertified implementations (such as GNU/Linux).  Either way, bugs are
quite possible.

Matt Flaschen