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    [–] grue 65 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Joke's on you: GNU/Linux isn't Unix to begin with (that's literally what GNU means: "GNU's Not Unix")!

    Therefore, MacOS is "the best Unix" only because it managed to squeeze by the BSDs and some dead proprietary Unixes ("Unices?" "Unixen?") -- hardly an impressive feat.

    Trollface

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    BSDs aren't even Unix AFAIK because they didn't bother to pay for the official recognition, despite literally being derived from UNIX. MacOS is pretty much the only UNIX that the average user will actually directly interact with.

    [–] FlyingSquid 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

    Although for both Linux and (especially) BSD, isn't there a "Unix of Theseus" issue here, if you understand my meaning?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

    Maybe for BSD? They have a lot of the original code though, and BSD moves a lot slower than Linux. Modern BSDs have a lot more in common with original UNIX than macOS does, but macOS paid for the certification and the BSDs didn't.

    Linux never was UNIX though. It does loosely follow the UNIX philosophy though.

    [–] ReginaPhalange 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    " Unic-i "