On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:36:07 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>Yes, and of course Linux and GNU are also free UNIX, 

>Linux and GNU and Free BSD do (almost I suppose) everything UNIX does...

If you mean that Linux with GNU is (very much like) Unix, yes.

If you mean that Linux and GNU are both (very much like) Unix, then no.

The GNU project set out in the early 1980's to create a new operating 
system from scratch. It was mostly complete, except for the kernel, when 
the Linux kernel became available. AFAIK the GNU/Hurd kernel is still not 
ready for production use, so most users of the GNU operating system run it 
with the Linux kernel.

The Linux kernel is just that, a kernel. By itself, it is not very useful as an 
operating system.

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

>I think Windows Server is also UNIX.

Really? Why do you think that?

-- 
Tom Marchant

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