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It's a ship of theseus. If you replace the whole things step by step, each step a small one, is it still the same thing or isn't it?
by rat87 11y ago
It's a ship of theseus.
If you replace the whole things step by step, each step a small one, is it still the same thing or isn't it?
- danieldk 11y agoThe point is that it is not a clone of UNIX, it's one of the evolutionary strains of UNIX. You probably won't find substantial amounts of AT&T Research UNIX in Solaris, but it's still UNIX. The lineages of BSD and Solaris can be traced back directly to AT&T Research UNIX.
- abiox 11y agoit seems to me that, today, this seems perhaps more a discussion of "historical context" than material reality. after all the evolution and adaptation that's gone on over the last couple decades i wonder if saying "bsd is unix" is any more than a notional thing. is the linux kernel materially and substantially different from any current bsd kernels?