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Linux was heavily inspired by Unix but it's not Unix in any sense. Rest of Unix certified implementations are however not widely deployed. I don't see many AIX
by for_xyz 6y ago
Linux was heavily inspired by Unix but it's not Unix in any sense.
Rest of Unix certified implementations are however not widely deployed. I don't see many AIX, Solaris production machines anywhere since everyone often deploys Linux instead.
Same story applies to *BSD family.
The only thing that keeps the Unix identity on those system is the Posix interface which is also extremely outdated on modern systems and it's kept around as a legacy.
- rbanffy 6y agoLinux is Unix in the sense it implements most of the same core ideas in a similar way. The same applies to macOS, which is a layer of BSD on top of a Mach microkernel. All those systems have much more in common between themselves than anything else.
- razakel 6y agomacOS is actually a certified UNIX, the rest being enterprise OSes most people will never see.