[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-09-05, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, strictly speaking Linux is just a kernel and not the whole operating
>> system. Everything that makes it work, from the shell to the software tools
>> packages, are not really Linux. Most of them are GNU products. But people
>> think of the whole distribution together as "Linux" even though strictly
>> speaking it isn't.
>
>    As much as I dislike these never-ending, off-topic threads, ...
>

_That's_ not an off-topic thread. :-) A _real_ off-topic thread would
be talking about cars (as some have done in the past) or asking whether
kilometre is pronounced kilo-metre or k-lom-metre which is currently
(for me) a real-world discussion elsewhere. It's the former BTW, even
though way too many people seem to pronounce it as if it's the name of
a device...

On a more serious note, I would be very happy to talk mainly about VMS,
but the VMS-specific discussions are mainly dead, and in today's world
there is natural cross-over anyway between what VMS provides and what
it _needs_ to provide to be viable in today's world.

>    It's certainly true that what many/most people call "Linux" would
> more accurately be called "GNU/Linux".
>
>    And "GNU" is an acronym for what, exactly?

That was just marketing by RMS. If it looks like a duck and quacks like
a duck, then it's a duck (or a Unix in this case).

Simon.

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