20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT

Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by robotresearcher on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:14PM (#13225627)

You're getting downvoted to hell for a small misunderstanding, and the replies aren't necessarily helping.

NeXT is the reason Apple went with a UNIX-type OS that evolved into OS X, yes.

Linux is also a UNIX-type OS, but is not an ancestor of OS X.

Linux is so popular now that it's easy to identify it with UNIX but historically it's only one of several implementations that work in roughly similar ways.

Other replies are telling you which code OS X was actually descended from.

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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by acchow on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:13PM (#13225977)

Linux = "Linux Is Not UniX"

It's in the name.

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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by alkonaut on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:11AM (#13227569)

I never heard that one before. I thought Linux was just a conflation of "Linus" and "Unix", while GNU was a recursive abbreviation of "GNU is Not Unix".

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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by mmjaa on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @06:19AM (#13228292)

Linux means "Linus's Unix" and the name came from the sysadmin at funet.fi who had to give the kernel a home subdirectory when Linus asked him to host the kernel on an FTP site ..

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Re:20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT by Volt on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @02:31AM (#13227447)

I think you're confusing Linux with GNU.

(I'd just like to interject, etc.)

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