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Its all Linux !! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was talking to my dad about my job and how people don't know how to use Linux. He said "Yeah, nobody uses that UNIX stuff anymore."

Then I pointed out that his phone and his computer both run flavors of UNIX, since he's been using Apple products since I made him switch by not supporting his issues with Windows, and that most of the websites and apps he's using are running Linux on the backend.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, he is correct. Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX-like system. And Android is abomination.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think macOS is actually Unix certified. It at least was at one point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At one point many years ago. BSD is true UNIX btw.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I looked it up. macOS is still unix certified.

BSD is usually not unix certified, so has to refer to itself as unix like.

What is and isn't unix is kind of up to what definition you're working with (pedigree, legally, practically).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BSD is usually not unix certified, so has to refer to itself as unix like.

Wait, really? Not POSIX? Huh

Also another reason I doubt current version macos is certified is:

"Because it's an expensive and lengthy process. And every version will need to be re-certified."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. SCO is still going?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I clicked on their certificate and was first registered in ‘03, with renewal due in May of this year.

So.. I don’t know! Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And what always gets lost in these discussions is if that old Unix stuff was so amazingly good that we should automatically assume Linux is inferior for not doing it. Even though all the old Unix vendors are basically dead now and replaced by Linux. That might have happened for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The main difference between being unix certified or not is being willing to pay for it. That's pretty much it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

then what did he say after that?