The Xinu Page
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The Xinu Page
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#2X is not UNIX (XNU), GNU is not UNIX (GNU), there are quite a few OSes that aren't Unix.
Heck, even UNIX is not UNIX: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/UNIX
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#3X is not UNIX (XNU), GNU is not UNIX (GNU), there are quite a few OSes that aren't Unix. Heck, even UNIX is not UNIX: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/UNIX
The cool part is - UNIX not is XINU
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#5So while you can download code, the real description is in a book, not online, and you can't see it without paying money. Uninspiring.
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#6X is not UNIX (XNU), GNU is not UNIX (GNU), there are quite a few OSes that aren't Unix. Heck, even UNIX is not UNIX: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/UNIX
The thing is, that page is better than half of all the unix guides I've seen online.
Except for the `su -c rm -rf /*` part, of course.
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#7So while you can download code, the real description is in a book, not online, and you can't see it without paying money. Uninspiring.
This is exactly the kind of thing that inspired Linus to make Linux.
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#9Just to point out another title edit by the mods. The original title was 'Xinu is not Unix'. Considering that's the first line of the body copy it was hardly excessive editorialising in need of fixing and actually did a better job of setting expectations than the pedestrian replacement title.
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#10Fun and completely irrelevant fact: "Xinu" is the name of the God of Pain in a popular Swedish role-playing game (pen and paper). See here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js...