Having an option called unix is ambiguous at best. I'm sure they mean "GNU/Linux, BSD and such", which completely messes up because OSX=BSD and GNU="Gnu is Not Unix". And the odds of someone browsing this page using Unix, are extremely small..
So if thats what they meant, they would have better of making a "Linux, BSD or similar" option.
Kurt, perhaps you are talking about GNU/Linux. The Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds is only the kernel, but it isn't a O.S. without all the other GNU software working above it.
It is clear that GNU/Linux is not Unix, because GNU stands for "GNU is Not Unix".
Kurt - 9 years ago
I think there should be a Linux category, or at least a unified Unix/Linux category. A common misconception is that Linux is a type of Unix. Linus Torvalds wrote the entirety of the first Linux kernel himself and did not use any already existing Unix source code. The two operating systems just look and work similarly.
Having an option called unix is ambiguous at best. I'm sure they mean "GNU/Linux, BSD and such", which completely messes up because OSX=BSD and GNU="Gnu is Not Unix". And the odds of someone browsing this page using Unix, are extremely small..
So if thats what they meant, they would have better of making a "Linux, BSD or similar" option.
Kurt, perhaps you are talking about GNU/Linux. The Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds is only the kernel, but it isn't a O.S. without all the other GNU software working above it.
It is clear that GNU/Linux is not Unix, because GNU stands for "GNU is Not Unix".
I think there should be a Linux category, or at least a unified Unix/Linux category. A common misconception is that Linux is a type of Unix. Linus Torvalds wrote the entirety of the first Linux kernel himself and did not use any already existing Unix source code. The two operating systems just look and work similarly.