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I don't see why - all the design decisions of the original unix are alive and kicking in linux. User and kernel space. Nothing fundamentally separates the two.

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Actually they are not. POSIX? Sure. But Linux is notorious for NIH and is incredibly off in the weeds in incompatible and broken ways from the UNIX world. Have you tried porting software written for Linux to another platform??

I don't see what point you're trying to make. UNIX does not guarantee portability, so of course software for Linux doesn't work out-of-the-box, or even build for that matter, in other UNIXoids.

Linux's NIH syndrome, however unfortunate it is, has not expanded into its unix roots. (yet?)

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