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Originally Posted by shalym
So are you saying that just because a Linux shell prompt is similar to a Unix shell prompt, and because someone used to using Unix would be comfortable using Linux, you're saying that the two Operating systems aren't the same?? But...that would mean that Android and Linux aren't the same Operating systems either, right??
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If you replace the bash shell with the zsh under Linux, does Linux cease being Linux? If you install the utilities that usually ship with a Linux distribution on Windows, does Windows suddenly become Linux? At the end of the day, Linux is just a kernel. It is convenient to throw a few other bits and pieces simply to separate Linux as a general purpose OS and Linux as an OS for embedded devices. Yet throwing in too many bits and pieces creates nonsensical scenarios. Is Linux actually Linux if you replace X11 with Wayland? What about replacing the SysV init with systemd? Or the GNU utilities with the BSD utilities?
As for Unix, it's little more than a trademark these days. Linux cannot be called Unix because it hasn't been certified to use that trademark. Even if it was, it would only describe belong to a class of operating systems rather than being the operating system itself.