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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by blueflow on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @07:47AM (#43770997)
The operating system interface that Unix, BSD and Linux share is called POSIX. The term POSIX is not widely known, so people sometimes make up for it by using "Linux" in-place because it is the most popular implementation.

This explains people who argue that Android is not Linux, despite it featuring a Linux kernel and self-identifying as so: They are intending to say that Android is not POSIX.

We need to make POSIX (as concept/word) more popular.

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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by oblio on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @01:56PM (#43774817)
It's never going to happen. POSIX has been around for 4 decades now. The longer something is not popular, the lower its chances to ever become popular.
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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by blueflow on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @03:52PM (#43776005)
The name might not be popular, but POSIX has long won. Everybody knows printf.
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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by oblio on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:46PM (#43777471)
The thread is about the name.
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Re:MinC Is Not Cygwin by m2f2 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @02:34PM (#43775260)
Especially to package writers that assume bash is available everywhere, hope that bin/sh is the same as bin/ksh...sed -i... not on unices, grep missing a ton of options....

Time to ask an AI ?

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