Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee> From: nassarmu at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:21:47 -0600
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Manjero or Mint?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2014, at 11:08 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As everyone knows my posts are basically 'or have been' about my learning
> > and my...  so called research <--some scoff'
> >
> > The introduction of Unix now more commonly named GNU-Linux <--from a basic
> > standpoint as 'wishing to be smart’
> >
> >
> > Then you should understand and know that Linux is not Unix at all.
> > Linux is a fork from Unix from 20+ years ago. Unix is still alive and well
> > (HPUX, AIX). Linux covers those that are called Linux and then there’s BSD
> > which is another fork.
> 
> Linux is NOT a fork from Unix, it is a combination of GNU, a
> reimplementation(and betterment IMHO) of the Unix userland tools, with
> a kernel written by Linus Torvalds, but these two are certainly not
> the only parts in the system. People have tried in the past to claim
> that Linux is a derivative of Unix but there is no factual basis to
> this claim.
> 
> Minix is another example of a reimplementation that does not share
> code with the original Unix.
> 
> the various BSDs and commercial UNIX offerings(HP's HP-UX, IBM's AIX,
> Microsoft's(yes, THAT Microsoft) Xenix, SCO's(Novels?) UnixWare,
> Digital's Tru64, Sun's SunOS/Solaris, Apple's OSX... etc) are all
> forks and derivatives of the original Unix.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies
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