• @mx_smith
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    62 hours ago

    I’m confused on why they separate BSD from Unix. BSD is a Unix variant.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      122 hours ago

      Unix is basically a brand name.
      BSD had to be completely re-written to remove all Unix code, so it could be published under a free license.
      It isn’t Unix certified.

      So it is Unix-derived, but not currently a Unix system (which is a completely meaningless term anyway).

      • @arden
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        119 minutes ago

        macos is unix certified tho

    • @[email protected]
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      42 hours ago

      To make it more specific I guess, what’s the problem with that? It’s like having a “people living on boats” and “people with no long term address”. You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.

    • Flying Squid
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      02 hours ago

      So is Linux. So I guess the light blue is all other UNIX variants?

        • Flying Squid
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          125 minutes ago

          I think this is a Ship of Theseus thing here that we’re going to argue about because at what point is it just UNIX-like and not UNIX?

          UNIX-like is definitely a descriptor currently used for Linux.

          Even the Wikipedia entry starts that way.