• lauha@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.

    This ruffles my feathers. Disregarding servers where Linux has near monopoly, surely Linux is installed on more devices and has more users than OSX? OP is clearly counting only desktop users

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      Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.

      Linux is not really a descendant of Unix. It is a Unix clone, but its roots do not trace back to Unix.

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        OSX comes from FreeBSD, which came from BSD, which had to rewrite everything that they got from UNIX thanks to copyright trolls

        Beyond that OSX just happens to be unix-like, apple couldn’t give less of a fuck about it being unix-like

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          OSX also came from NextStep which came from the original BSD Unix. They used FreeBSD as well. OSX is also certified Unix starting from leopard. This year apple did not renew the certification, so later releases of macOS are not Unix, but Unix-like.

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      Same here, also all embedded system on linux + smartphone. I guess the author meant desktop usage. Still I am very unsure about the world at large. This is north-American take.