Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 19, 2002 09:19 PM
It's rather unlikely that, say, a whole lot of Debian or Gentoo developers are going to wake up one fine morning next year and suddenly decide they want their favorite Linux distribution certified as a jen-you-wine flavor of Unix(TM).
Because GNU = GNU's not UNIX right?
Of course, this is ironic since it uses a kernel that was originally created as a UNIX clone for x86 based computers.
If UNIX is just a Brand name (like Windows) then no, GNU/Linux != UNIX. But if UNIX is used as an identifier for a type of OS implementation then yes GNU/Linux = UNIX (not 100% identical, but neither are HP-UX, AIX, Solaris or the other UNIXs)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 19, 2002 09:19 PMBecause GNU = GNU's not UNIX right?
Of course, this is ironic since it uses a kernel that was originally created as a UNIX clone for x86 based computers.
If UNIX is just a Brand name (like Windows) then no, GNU/Linux != UNIX. But if UNIX is used as an identifier for a type of OS implementation then yes GNU/Linux = UNIX (not 100% identical, but neither are HP-UX, AIX, Solaris or the other UNIXs)
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