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You're getting downvoted to hell for a small misunderstanding, and the replies aren't necessarily helping. NeXT is the reason Apple went with a UNIX-type OS th
by robotresearcher 10y ago
You're getting downvoted to hell for a small misunderstanding, and the replies aren't necessarily helping.
NeXT is the reason Apple went with a UNIX-type OS that evolved into OS X, yes.
Linux is also a UNIX-type OS, but is not an ancestor of OS X.
Linux is so popular now that it's easy to identify it with UNIX but historically it's only one of several implementations that work in roughly similar ways.
Other replies are telling you which code OS X was actually descended from.
- acchow 10y agoLinux = "Linux Is Not UniX" It's in the name.
- Volt 10y agoI think you're confusing Linux with GNU. (I'd just like to interject, etc.)
- alkonaut 10y agoI never heard that one before. I thought Linux was just a conflation of "Linus" and "Unix", while GNU was a recursive abbreviation of "GNU is Not Unix".
- mmjaa 10y agoLinux means "Linus's Unix" and the name came from the sysadmin at funet.fi who had to give the kernel a home subdirectory when Linus asked him to host the kernel on an FTP site ..