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Some examples:

  • Android
  • Alpine: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox
  • glaucus: A simple and lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and toybox
  • Chimera (alpha stage): Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library
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[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 42 points 1 year ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s only called UNIX if it comes from the Santa Cruz region of California, otherwise it’s a sparkling POSIX.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically, no, indeed. On paper, most (outside UNIX purists) refer to it (and MINIX) as Unix-like, as they don't share much from UNIX outside the underlying philosophy. Ritchie himself still thought of Linux as mostly Unix in essence. Same kind of Ayckchyually, basically lol

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 10 points 1 year ago
[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Let me rephrase :-)

Linux Is Not UniX

🙃

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

No, you said Linux is not equal to Unix, which is also technically correct.

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 year ago

No, he said Unix is not equal to Linux. xD

[-] radix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I can see the value of this. Linux \not \in Unix, and also Linux \not = Unix.

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