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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee<br /><br /><div>> From: nassarmu@gmail.com<br>> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:21:47 -0600<br>> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Manjero or Mint?<br>> <br>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:08 PM, paul g <pj.world@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > As everyone knows my posts are basically 'or have been' about my learning<br>> > and my... so called research <--some scoff'<br>> ><br>> > The introduction of Unix now more commonly named GNU-Linux <--from a basic<br>> > standpoint as 'wishing to be smart’<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Then you should understand and know that Linux is not Unix at all.<br>> > Linux is a fork from Unix from 20+ years ago. Unix is still alive and well<br>> > (HPUX, AIX). Linux covers those that are called Linux and then there’s BSD<br>> > which is another fork.<br>> <br>> Linux is NOT a fork from Unix, it is a combination of GNU, a<br>> reimplementation(and betterment IMHO) of the Unix userland tools, with<br>> a kernel written by Linus Torvalds, but these two are certainly not<br>> the only parts in the system. People have tried in the past to claim<br>> that Linux is a derivative of Unix but there is no factual basis to<br>> this claim.<br>> <br>> Minix is another example of a reimplementation that does not share<br>> code with the original Unix.<br>> <br>> the various BSDs and commercial UNIX offerings(HP's HP-UX, IBM's AIX,<br>> Microsoft's(yes, THAT Microsoft) Xenix, SCO's(Novels?) UnixWare,<br>> Digital's Tru64, Sun's SunOS/Solaris, Apple's OSX... etc) are all<br>> forks and derivatives of the original Unix.<br>> <br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29<br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix<br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux<br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></div> </div></body>
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