To clear it up I am referring to just the kernel. You can set anything you’d like as PID 1 so we can have a non-unixlike userland. For example, some users set their kernel to boot directly into Emacs, without an init system.

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    9 hours ago

    When I think “unix-like” I think, “everything is a file, configurations are human-readable, executables do one simple thing and combine to perform complex operations”