[sf-lug] Has Linux outgrown Unix?

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:47:45PM -0700, Jeffrey Malone wrote:
> The truest form of UNIX that still has any real market share today is
> Solaris, but it, like Linux, is a derivative of UNIX (albeit, a much
> more UNIX-like derivative). (HP-UX and AIX fans can feel free to argue
> otherwise)

Not so much a derivative of UNIX, but more a GNU-empowered work-alike.
Initially dependent upon MINIX user space.  Yada yada.

Here's a nice (huge) family tree of Unix and friends (OSX, Linux, etc.)

  http://www.levenez.com/unix/

See also:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Enjoy,

-bill!