<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Counter: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/201983/is_linux_just_another_unix_flavor.html" class="">http://www.pcworld.com/article/201983/is_linux_just_another_unix_flavor.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FTA:</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Shown below is an excerpt from the Linux kernel source README file that explains the relationship between Linux and UNIX. Though there’s no author attribution for this file, it’s obvious that the definition it carries has the blessing of those who create the Linux kernel, including Linus himself:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">WHAT IS LINUX?<br class=""><br class="">Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single Unix Specification compliance.<br class=""><br class="">It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You need not share code to call it a fork. As software and hardware grow up and become better the old bits are replaced with newer, better versions. You can take the source code, print it out, type it all up by hand and call it your own because, well, you typed it. Change all the variables and the order of the functions and now it’s changed enough you can claim it was not what was before. But if you’re not creating it all from scratch, doing all your work in the basic building blocks and create your own compiler then it’s originated from somewhere. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>When is a fork not a fork? When it’s a clone… <a href="http://vintagemacmuseum.com/send-in-the-clones/" class="">http://vintagemacmuseum.com/send-in-the-clones/</a></div><div class=""><div class="">I’d include the David Pogue parody from the May 1997 MacWorld but I fear it is not easy to find anymore. I used to have it stickied to my iPhone but that page is 404 now and I cannot find it on <a href="http://Archive.org" class="">Archive.org</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class="">Ryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 30, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Munir Nassar <<a href="mailto:nassarmu@gmail.com" class="">nassarmu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryan.coleman@cwis.biz" class="">ryan.coleman@cwis.biz</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:08 PM, paul g <<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" class="">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">As everyone knows my posts are basically 'or have been' about my learning<br class="">and my... so called research <--some scoff'<br class=""><br class="">The introduction of Unix now more commonly named GNU-Linux <--from a basic<br class="">standpoint as 'wishing to be smart’<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Then you should understand and know that Linux is not Unix at all.<br class="">Linux is a fork from Unix from 20+ years ago. Unix is still alive and well<br class="">(HPUX, AIX). Linux covers those that are called Linux and then there’s BSD<br class="">which is another fork.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Linux is NOT a fork from Unix, it is a combination of GNU, a<br class="">reimplementation(and betterment IMHO) of the Unix userland tools, with<br class="">a kernel written by Linus Torvalds, but these two are certainly not<br class="">the only parts in the system. People have tried in the past to claim<br class="">that Linux is a derivative of Unix but there is no factual basis to<br class="">this claim.<br class=""><br class="">Minix is another example of a reimplementation that does not share<br class="">code with the original Unix.<br class=""><br class="">the various BSDs and commercial UNIX offerings(HP's HP-UX, IBM's AIX,<br class="">Microsoft's(yes, THAT Microsoft) Xenix, SCO's(Novels?) UnixWare,<br class="">Digital's Tru64, Sun's SunOS/Solaris, Apple's OSX... etc) are all<br class="">forks and derivatives of the original Unix.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29</a><br class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix<br class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux<br class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br class="">tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br class="">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>