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    1. Code base. It has no relation whatsoever to anything unix. You know the ATT bell labs unix. Unix kernels descend directly from that, Linux doesn’t. It was written by this genuine genius man named Linus lol
    2. Unix trademark certification that is maintained by the “open group”. Linux is not a certified unix, even though it is POSIX compliant.
    3. POSIX compliance. Linux is POSIX complaint, but that’s just how it behaves in terms of APIs and system calls. POSIX complaince doesn’t make a system “unix”. Linux is not derived from unix at all, its code is its own code, it behaves like unix, but it is not unix. MacOS, BSD and other unix systems are derived from Unix (I know MacOS has taken its own way now, but still, it came from a Unix code base).
      Tldr; Linux is not unix because it does not descend from AT&T Unix or BSD and it is not UNIX-certified.










  • penquin@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml"SO proof" distro
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    3 months ago

    I’ve set up Linux mint for my sister in law and didn’t hear from her the whole two years she was in college. But nowadays we have immutable distros. They’re fantastic for a set it and forget it kinda thing. They’re solid for those who don’t want things to break.