On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:08 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> Linux *is* Unix
>> 
>> No, it isn't.  Linux is at best a derivative of Minix.  It's UNIX-like,
>> perhaps, but it's not Unix.
> 
> Care to explain that one?

http://stason.org/TULARC/os/linux-faq/007-Is-Linux-Unix.html

Short version, to be UNIX it has to be "blessed" by "The Open Group" and 
Linux hasn't been.

Jim

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