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stefanzweifel / git-auto-commit-action

Automatically commit and push changed files back to GitHub with this GitHub Action for the 80% use case.
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Linux is not UNIX #321

Closed couling closed 9 months ago

couling commented 9 months ago

Excuse the pedantry, but Linux is not UNIX or even "a" UNIX. UNIX is the trade-name for a specific operating system. Although there are forks and therefore multiple UNIX's, Linux isn't a fork. It was a completely separate OS from the ground up that happened to use UNIX as the template for what an OS should look like. They've maintained compatibility via POSIX and more generally just attempting to harmonise their API.

Terms: "unix-like", "*nix", and possibly "POSIX" would be fine. But naming Linux as UNIX is incorrect.

stefanzweifel commented 9 months ago

Thank you very much for the explanation. Learned something new today.