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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by vanilla on Sunday June 07, 2015 @11:28AM (#9675004)
I can't follow the comparison.

Linux is just a Kernel, most distros use the coreutils package which is developed/maintained by GNU [1].

So any comparison is not between Linux and Unix, rather the GNU part in GNU/Linux

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by justizin on Sunday June 07, 2015 @12:57PM (#9675397)
Right, and OS X is based on FreeBSD.
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