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Look, I personally agree with you, and >1 Linux distro has passed the certification, which means that, strictly and precisely, Linux is a UNIX. (However that me

Look, I personally agree with you, and >1 Linux distro has passed the certification, which means that, strictly and precisely, Linux is a UNIX. (However that means that FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD technically are not UNIX.) But that is not what the mainstream industry takes it to mean. Whereas terms like xNix are, I submit, well understood.

sedatk 4y ago
Maybe I should register "xNix" as a trademark, so this debate would be over instantly. :)
- lproven 4y ago
  :-D It is certainly one solution. As I recall, it was quite a long time after Linux was a thing that someone trademarked the name and donated it to the LF.