Fred Williams <unclefred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 13:52, Ignoramus15568 wrote:
>
>> On 2008-04-15, Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Ignoramus15568 <ignoramus15568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2008-04-15, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>>> news:1trkfg0azrexz.e3n6irgnngc8.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:44:10 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Windows is on its Last Legs!?
>>>>>> At 95+ percent of the market I don't think so.
>>>>>
>>>>> 91% now. It was 96% 3 years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And, keep in mind, Apple's OS is FreeBSD, with their custom GUI, so
>>>> the Unix desktop market share is now 9%.
>>>>
>>>> i
>>>
>>> Huh? Linux is not Unix or are you saying the Linux share is too
>>> insignificant to mention?
>>
>> I think that both Linux and Apple are Unix. That's my opinion.
>>
> Linux is definitely an offshoot of Unix, last I heard they hadn't quite
> matched the specifications in the technical details and they weren't
> about to because it would downgrade Linux performance or features or
> something like that. I'm not aware of Apple being Unix related, but
> I'm willing to be corrected if I'm wrong.
>
Linux has been developed entirely independently of Unix. The Unix
trademark belongs to someone, and Linux is, whilst unix-like, not a Unix
in the very formal sense.
Apple's OSX uses the Mach kernel and some BSD components, therefore,
also has much Unix-like capability under that pretty, if now somewhat
dated, gui.
I'm not sure that there is a formal definition of Unix, rather, it's
more of a trading name. Posix is a different matter, though, and the
general feeling is that Linux meets the Posix spec, although nobody has
bothered to have it formally qualified as such, as there's no reason to
do so.
In any case, the remark above indicating that at least 9% of desktop
share runs on "Unix" is is correct, if you take a slightly liberal view
of the word "Unix".
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