[TUHS] Re: most direct Unix descendant

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

On 6/5/24 12:34 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 at 3:17 AM, Andrew Lynch via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what would be considered the most direct descendent of Unix available today?
>>
>> ...
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>> Thanks, Andrew Lynch
> snip
> Given this, my humble opinion (which again this sort of thing I believe is largely a philosophical matter of opinion...) is that the BSD line captures the spirit of Research UNIX much more than System V does, while System V retains much more of the source code lineage of what most folks would consider a "pure" UNIX.  Of course all of this too is predicated on treating V7 (really 32V...) as that central point of divergence.
When I saw this thread appear, I was of two minds about it, but this 
lines up with where my thoughts were headed. I've done a lot of delving 
into the v6/v7 environments over the last 10 years or so and it feels 
much closer in kinship to BSD derivatives than to SysV... source code 
lineages aside. Also, I get more mileage out of my BSD books and docs 
than those treating SysV. I'd vote for *BSD as sticking closest to the 
unix way, if there is still such a thing... I say this as I just typed 
'kldload linux64' into freebsd's terminal so I could run sublime 
alongside nvi... sometimes I wish I was a purist, but I'm way too fond 
of experimentation :).

Will