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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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You rather should ask what separates Windows from all the Unix-likes. Windows is the weird one, not Linux.
This got me thinking, are there any other non-Unix-based OS's left? Really, for any hardware more sophisticated than say, an ESP? At all?
I honestly can't think of one.
Haiku comes to mind
Haiku is pretty unix-like, I wouldn't count it
Fun wiki hole there. Nice.