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Silly to use the term UNIX at all, it was replaced by POSIX which is still not perfect but less amorphous. Anything that is POSIX-complaint or near-compliant is
by yakak 4y ago
Silly to use the term UNIX at all, it was replaced by POSIX which is still not perfect but less amorphous. Anything that is POSIX-complaint or near-compliant is a usable system for someone who would have accepted a UNIX system last millennium.
- simonh 4y agoSome versions of Windows have been POSIX compliant, even without WSL, so you can't entirely rely on that. It's a very basic spec.
- yakak 4y agoSure, I specifically use these POSIX orientated emulation layers for the process of porting "UNIX" apps. I would consider windows an acceptable replacement for UNIX as long as one isn't working with people who use its native interfaces by default.
- boondaburrah 4y agoYes, but without WSL you had to install SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) which gave you a shell and all the Unix things you like, so it's really not different (even if the POSIX it gave you was really old and crusty). I actually liked SUA more than WSL, which I like more than WSL2, since it seems like they keep moving farther and farther away from making Windows actually POSIX compliant and instead just offering a container for your pesky POSIX needs.
- lproven 4y agoWhen Novell bought UNIX Labs from AT&T, it donated the UNIX™ trademark to the Open Group. TOG is the organization that created the POSIX test suite and administers the tests. In other words, for 29 years now, "this is UNIX" means "it passes the POSIX test suite". The terms are basically interchangeable.