Re: Is Linux Unix?

["Paul Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Paul Tsai <paul@thirdaspect.net> writes:

  pt> Ok, it is agreed that Linux shared no code from Minix, that is
  pt> well supported.  But it is also well established that Linus was
  pt> trying to make a Minix-like OS with more features.

If by "Minix-like" you mean a kernel that runs on an i386 and provides a
Unix-like system call interface, then I guess you could say Linus was
trying to make a "Minix-like" OS.  But if you mean _anything_ more than
that, then your comment is not correct.

  pt> Hence, the origins of Linux lie closer to Minix then to Unix.

This does not follow at all.  Linux is much closer to any of the
Unix/BSD systems than it is to Minix.  Minix is very different.

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