2026-10-27 23:14 UTC
Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.
Linux is not really a descendant of Unix. It is a Unix clone, but its roots do not trace back to Unix.
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@protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-28 12:40
OSX comes from FreeBSD, which came from BSD, which had to rewrite everything that they got from UNIX thanks to copyright trolls Beyond that OSX just happens to be unix-like, apple couldn’t give less of a fuck about it being unix-like