From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:40:15 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> Message-ID: <20090605144015.GA27542@mercury.ccil.org> Brian S Walden scripsit: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 Not a bad article, really, but I do get very tired of this rigid separation of Linux and Unix. No, Linux doesn't have any AT&T code, but there isn't all that much left in Solaris or *BSD either (other than header files and such). And no, Linux distros aren't Unix-branded at present, but FWIU, that's because certification is neither fast nor cheap, and applies only to a given release. Commercial Linuxes have fast release cycles, and Debian, whose release cycles are slow, can't afford certification. But in terms of actual, rather than formal, compliance, Linux is as much a Unix as any branded Unix. -- The first thing you learn in a lawin' family John Cowan is that there ain't no definite answers cowan at ccil.org to anything. --Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird