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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [The Register]
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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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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Plan 9 is clearly what the article is talking about. Odd that they don't name it.
They do, if you consider that this article doesn't stand alone at all and read the blurb at the very bottom in italics acknowledging that it's part of a bigger series