butiez@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThe best Unixsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square204fedilinkarrow-up1790arrow-down173
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minus-squareEirilinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 days agoIs there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.
minus-squareCeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoProbably. macOS is only Unix by certification because Apple pays a lot of money for that privilege.
minus-squareTrashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 days agoGNU/Unix/NT, as I’ve taken to calling it
minus-squareBillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoBack in the 90s, Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer that you could enable (it wasn’t enabled by default).
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoThere’s also the WSL, which is pretty unix-y.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoI think WSL1 was derived from the POSIX NT personality layer.
Is there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.
Probably. macOS is only Unix by certification because Apple pays a lot of money for that privilege.
GNU/Unix/NT, as I’ve taken to calling it
Or GUN for short.
Back in the 90s, Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer that you could enable (it wasn’t enabled by default).
There’s also the WSL, which is pretty unix-y.
I think WSL1 was derived from the POSIX NT personality layer.