UNIX® is whatever The Open Group says it is. http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ Granted, nowadays people no longer use the "original" UNIX. For example, I use Mac OS X on my PDP-11! :D
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^ You do know ubuntu is re-branded debian, right?
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Mr Code is correct. If by "Unix" you mean the code descended from the original Bell Labs system, then the product marketed by the (almost) late unlamented SCO is the only real Unix.
As I understand it BSD started as the original kernel with added utilities, then they replaced the kernel; otherwise, you couldn't use BSD without paying Unix royalties. I believe HP still support HU-UX, but the product was dropped with the hardware it ran on. If by "Unix" you mean "POSIX compliant", then Linux is Unix too. Posixculprit: "Windows dominates the market." What market? The server market? No. the embedded market? No. The mainframe market? Hardly. The PC market is distinguished by the fact that purchasing choices are generally made by people who are less than well informed. I remember when the original IBM PC came out. The reviewer in Personal Computer World described it as over-priced and under-performing, and he concluded "Anyone who buys this is a wally. And by the end of the year there will be at least a million more wallies in the world." |
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http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/debian.htm use apt-get/aptitude It's still a Debian package manager nonetheless |
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Once again: popularity != quality. The line I was replying to: Quote:
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Also, it migt catch on better if it didn't have a less then intelligent acronym for a name. |
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Why Mint isn't on there? Don't know, ask who maintains the list *shrug* Quote:
There's not that much of BSD in there though (>afaik<, not a Mac person). Regarding the licence stuff, personally I prefer the BSD licence simply because it's more permissive than the GPL. |
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Kenny.. I don't know how you manage.. but every time I read one of your posts I think "W. T. F. !?". Mac OS X may contain parts that originated in FreeBSD but I wouldn't call that "being based on FreeBSD". At some point Windows used code from FreeBSD too but I wouldn't be quick to call that version of Windows as being a flavor of BSD. You also seem to have a problem regarding the BSD license. Do you even -write- usable software of any kind? The people who apply the BSD license to the software they develop are obviously fine with the BSD license's conditions. Those people do not care (or may even desire) that individuals use their code in commercial projects. Those people simply want their software to be useful, used, etc.
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