[CentOS] Re: Swap Considerations

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 4:46:59 pm Jim Perrin wrote:
> However, since today seems to be 'old reference' day between here and
> work, I'll throw down a  gauntlet.
>
> Geek challenge of the day: What does the acronym GECOS stand for and
> how is it used in linux today?
>
> No cheating with man pages or wikipedia!

General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
It is my understanding that it is currently used in linux to refer to the 
proper name field in the /etc/passwd file.

Is that close?

I cheated, however, I didn't use wikipedia or the man page. So I /am/ 
following the rules set forth ;)

Tim
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