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

[Dan Cross]

In article <ud77vl$1vp0k$2 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>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_ ? :-)

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