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Old 05-15-2015, 04:32 PM   #558
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
There are many operating systems out there.

Windows and Linux are but two of them.

Linux is very similar to Unix, but it is a different operating system. There are many flavours of Unix. And even more flavours of Linux.
Maybe the problem is labeling OS distributions for desktops and laptops that use the linux kernel as linux. Stallman is nearly universally lambasted for requesting that they be called GNU/linux.

Should a distribution built on a BSD kernel with all the same configuarations, utilities, and applications as a GNU/linux distribution be called linux? The situation is a bit muddy because it is no longer theoretical because it is being done. But just because it has come full circle does not change the fact that the utilities and applications that were present in the first systems using the linux kernel were written by people using UNIX and its cousins.
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