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Right, it is considered to be a flavor of Unix. But OS X has nothing to do with Linux other than a common ancestor.
by karlshea 11y ago
Right, it is considered to be a flavor of Unix. But OS X has nothing to do with Linux other than a common ancestor.
- runjake 11y agoLinux is not an ancestor of any flavor of Unix. It did not evolve from a Unix codebase. It is the epitome of a "Unix-like" operating system. At an early point, it might've been fair to call it a spiritual successor of Minix, though.
- karlshea 11y ago> Linux is not an ancestor of any flavor of Unix. I don't think I suggested that it was.