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What is Unix? Because the actual Bell-Labs Unix didn't sound easy to install or get ahold of. Minix is trivially easy to work with but that's not Unix, just so
by swiley 6y ago
What is Unix? Because the actual Bell-Labs Unix didn't sound easy to install or get ahold of.
Minix is trivially easy to work with but that's not Unix, just something similar.
Linux (with GNU or busybox) is super easy to find and often easier to run (both on qemu and on modern computers you can just stick the kernel somewhere the [virtual] machine can read it and then just power on.) Once you do that all the code is there. It's not unix though, it's not really even POSIX, it's just what everyone is currently doing with computers (but you really need terraform, docker, and node.js to have the complete picture.)