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People insisting that "XYZ is not UNIX", Unix or however you want to capitalize it, is kinda pointless. For all practical purposes Linux is Unix, FreeBSD, Open
by bborud 12y ago
People insisting that "XYZ is not UNIX", Unix or however you want to capitalize it, is kinda pointless. For all practical purposes Linux is Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OSX are Unix.
One would think that if any OS would foster the idea of sameness it would be those belonging to the Unix family.
As for old vs new style command line options: that's now Unix in much the same way that Dave Gilmour was a proper part of Pink Floyd and not merely "the new guy".
The original OS we call Unix has not been relevant to the discussion for 20-25 years.
- slimsag 12y agoThat's silly. Can I then say that the Cocoa GUI from OSX is therefore the "Unix GUI" ?
- talideon 12y agoIt's a Unix GUI, not the Unix GUI.
- bborud 12y agoUnix now refers to a family of operating systems -- not a single OS. Thinking of Unix as a specific OS and a specific trademark in 2015 is just odd since the majority of people using various forms of Unix today were not even born when the distinction was even relevant. And just as with other families, the peculiarities of a single member does not automatically apply to the entire family.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoWhy not? It's not as if there hasn't been incredible diversity in the x windows experience over the last 30 years.
- enneff 12y agoThe GP's point was that the origins of single-dash single-character flags is the original Unix, not Plan 9 as the GGP had claimed.