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layer8last Friday at 4:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

“*nix” means a Unix-like OS just generally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2Anix), like for example in “Minix” and “Xenix”. Sticking “OS” to the end of an OS name is also commonplace. However, the title on the page is “The Learnix Operating System”, so the actual name seems to be just “Learnix”.

It’s arguably Nix and NixOS who have unnecessarily stepped into the “*nix” namespace without adding a distinguishing prefix.


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xboxnolifeslast Friday at 6:24 PM

Then I guess the OS part is redundant, since thr nix already implies an OS.

otabdeveloper4last Friday at 4:53 PM

> “*nix” means a Unix-like OS just generally

"Unix-like OS" isn't a thing that has existed for two decades. Only Linux and Darwin survived, so don't do the "*nix" thing, please.

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