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zerozerotwo • today at 12:12 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

I never quite understood what the point of this was beyond marketing. Linux is also not listed probably because no one ever paid to have it listed


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zarzavat • today at 12:36 PM

Apparently it was for legal reasons. Apple was sued by the Open Group for describing Mac OS X as Unix® so they decided it was cheaper to bring it up to spec rather than to fight the lawsuit.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27095/why...

https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

liamgm • today at 2:10 PM

Enterpise espeically banking need standard and certification for reliability thats why , also certain Linux distro had certified before from China based on RHEL.

This is UNIX 03 certified OS with OSS alternatives from I gathered on internet :

- Apple OS X 10.7 - Apple macOS 26 , provide OSS Darwin 9 - Darwin 26

- Oracle Solaris 10 / 11 , provide OSS OpenSolais , then Illumos

- EulerOS 2.0 , based on RedHat Enterprise Linux / RHEL 7 and 8

- Inspur K-UX 2.0 , based on RedHat Enterprise Linux / RHEL 5

- Inspur K-UX 3.0 , based on RedHat Enterprise Linux / RHEL 7

stingraycharles • today at 12:23 PM

Enterprise. Checklists.

dofm • today at 12:34 PM

It is specific Linux distributions that would be Unix-certified. Huawei had one; not sure if it has ever been on this page.

mrweasel • today at 12:36 PM

It was a legal problem, and an interesting story: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

drob518 • today at 12:30 PM

And Gnu’s Not UNIX.

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