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> UNIX is a brand But Unix isn't. The BSDs have always been and will always be Unix. GNU/Linux is not Unix. > but neither are any of the BSDs. macOS is BSD,
by Maursault 4y ago
> UNIX is a brand
But Unix isn't. The BSDs have always been and will always be Unix. GNU/Linux is not Unix.
> but neither are any of the BSDs.
macOS is BSD, and it is registered as UNIX 03 compliant from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard up to and including macOS 13 Ventura, with macOS 11, 12, and 13 registered on both x86-64 and ARM64 systems.
- djur 4y agoYou didn't include MacOS in your original comment and I wasn't referring to it. The fact that some parts of modern BSD systems are derived from the original Unix is interesting in a Ship of Theseus sense but it tells us nothing useful about them.