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Re:Some Differences Between macOS and Common Unix Systems by rualca on Sunday December 27, 2020 @03:27AM (#25549692)
> Linux isn't technically one, sure, but given that Linux is where the OS hot-shit is now (...) is it not fair to say it's where Unix would've been had things been different?

No, it's not fair. Linux is just the OS kernel. UNIX covers interfaces, from APIs to shells and apps distributed by default, which are way out of the scope of Linux. That's the responsibility of Linux distributionsm.

And by the way, there are linux distributions that are certified UNIX

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293396/is-there-a-l...

Moreover, UNIX is standardized. The drive for standardization was derived from the fact that all vendors of UNIX-like OSes were pushing their quirky vendor-specific things. In fact, even within Linux there is no widely established standard regarding basic interfaces, let alone UNIX.

With this in mind, do note that macOS's market share is significantly larger than the aggregate market share of Linux-based UNIX-like distributions.

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Re:Some Differences Between macOS and Common Unix Systems by kergonath on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:05AM (#25550747)
> And by the way, there are linux distributions that are certified UNIX

How was I not aware of this? Thanks for the link! And you make a very good point regarding kernel vs OS. I assumed Linux == GNU/Linux in this context (so ignoring Android and others), but it certainly is a gross over simplification.

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