Linux

LINUX is a freeware UNIX clone, kinda the same thing, kinda not. I consider LINUX as a flavor of UNIX. Really Linux is this freeware version of UNIX, that works basically the same, but was written later and was more a project in reverse engineering (copying) an Operating System. Some design parts are better, but some aren't. Really, it is really more accurate to think of LINUX as a UNIX clone than as UNIX. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2022-07-23

However, since all UNIXEN (including LINUX) have more in common than they have different, let's just pretend that everything that looks, smells and behaves like UNIX is UNIX. In the world of UNIX this assumption is often enough to cause fits and endless debate -- so be careful that you don't use the term UNIX as casually as I do.

Even Solaris (Sun), HP/UX (Hewlet Packard), AIX (IBM) and IRIX (SGI) are considered UNIX to me, and gawd knows that'll trigger more than a few as those bastardized proprietary children aren't real UNIX. And so on.

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For the record, I'm going to get 5,000 emails on how superior LINUX is to UNIX because it is open source and the advantages of GNU, Freeware and OpenSource licensing. To balance this out will be hundreds of others emails explaining how LINUX isn't a real UNIX, since it was a just a poor copy done decades later and there is no commercial incentive for real Q.A. (Quality Assurance) and so on. Which is one of the altruisms about UNIX -- everyone has an absolute 100% correct view of exactly what it means (to them), and they are more than willing to tell you about it.

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