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Linux is not UNIX #321

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@couling couling commented Feb 21, 2024

Excuse the pedantry, but Linux is not UNIX or even "a" UNIX. UNIX is the trade-name for a specific operating system. Although there are forks and therefore multiple UNIX's, Linux isn't a fork. It was a completely separate OS from the ground up that happened to use UNIX as the template for what an OS should look like. They've maintained compatibility via POSIX and more generally just attempting to harmonise their API.

Terms: "unix-like", "*nix", and possibly "POSIX" would be fine. But naming Linux as UNIX is incorrect.

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Thank you very much for the explanation. Learned something new today.

@stefanzweifel stefanzweifel merged commit e040c59 into stefanzweifel:master Feb 22, 2024
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