• provectus@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.

    Linux is not really a descendant of Unix. It is a Unix clone, but its roots do not trace back to Unix.

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      4 hours ago

      OSX comes from FreeBSD, which came from BSD, which had to rewrite everything that they got from UNIX thanks to copyright trolls

      Beyond that OSX just happens to be unix-like, apple couldn’t give less of a fuck about it being unix-like

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        4 hours ago

        OSX also came from NextStep which came from the original BSD Unix. They used FreeBSD as well. OSX is also certified Unix starting from leopard. This year apple did not renew the certification, so later releases of macOS are not Unix, but Unix-like.