Is Linux Unix??

[Greg Hamilton]

First you need to answer the question, 'What is Unix?'.

A pretty good answer can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

In a nutshell there are a bunch of standards to which an operating 
system must comply to qualify for Unix certification. The particular 
distribution of GNU/Linux you choose to run may or may not be 
compliant. Even if it is compliant it's likely that the maintainers of 
the distribution haven't sought to have it certified.

In theory a Unix standards compliant Linux distribution is possible.

On 30/05/2004, at 1:58 PM, Ed Sutherland wrote:

> This has probably been answered before, but how do Unix (*BSD), Linux 
> and Darwin compare? If I'm running Linux, am I running Unix?
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> Ed
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