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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-09-05, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <3df23005-6fe0-47ef-844f-c2fba2a52ba5n at googlegroups.com>,
> 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, ...
>>
>>   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?
>
> No, it would not.  That is marketing propaganda from Stallman,
> and really has nothing to do with Linux.  For example, there are
> distributions such as Alpine Linux that use a BSD userspace, and
> have nothing to do with GNU.
>

I currently have parts of the Alpine Linux userspace installed on my
Android phone (which has Google components and a Linux kernel
underneath) inside of a PRoot environment inside of a terminal emulator
running on the phone.

I wonder how you would describe _that_ ? :-)

Simon.

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