[NTLUG:Discuss] On Linux distributions.

[Merlin]

At 03/12/2001 16:00, Charles Jacobus uttered:
>What is *ix systems? As one of the Great Unwashed I don't recognise them.
>Thanks

It's an abbreviation for "any and all Unix like systems".

For instance, GNU/Linux, SCO-Unix, Unix, AIX, etc.

Just a shorthand way of referring to a system that is based on Unix, 
essentially.
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