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(computing, Internet) Unix and various other similar and/or compatible operating systems.
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(computing) A Unix scripting language or the command line interface itself.
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(computing) The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
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(computing) A Unix-like operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
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(computing) A POSIX-compatible environment that runs natively on Microsoft Windows.
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(computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
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(Internet, software, countable) A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
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(computing, slang) To switch one's operating system to Linux.
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(computing) Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.
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(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for having the largest following in the BSD community.
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an open source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.
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The Free Software Foundation's project to develop a free UNIX-like operating system, including the legal framework, such as the source code and documentation licenses.
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The free software operating system resulting from the combination of the Linux kernel and the GNU operating system.
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(software) an optional, full-featured POSIX and UNIX environment subsystem for Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems
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(computing) A file system specification that extends ISO 9660 to relax restrictions on filenames.
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A computer desktop environment that runs on Unix and Linux
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(Internet slang, derogatory) The Linux operating system.
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(software) Any unix-like operating system that uses the Linux kernel.
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(computing, informal) Any feature specific to the Linux operating system (usually in comparison to other UNIX-like systems like BSD).
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(operating systems, trademark) A major operating system, formerly known as OS X (and before that as Mac OS X), used on laptop and desktop computers by Apple, Inc.
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(computing) A command used to display help pages in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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(computing) A helpfile in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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(computing, Unix) A block of user documentation.
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(computing) A Unix-like operating system for teaching the principles of operating systems.
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a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), notable for running on 57 different platforms
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(computing) An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.
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(computing) a Unix-like operating system that is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
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(computing) An open-source operating system based on Linux.
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(computing) A Unix-like operating system that is derived from FreeBSD.
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(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface: a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.
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(computing, informal) The TOPS-20 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.
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(computing, informal) A user of the Ubuntu operating system.
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(computing) Synonym of BSD (“Berkeley System Distribution”)
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Unix-like operating system (e.g., Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc.).
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(operating systems) A specialised, fixed-purpose machine image which can run directly on hardware or a hypervisor without an operating system such as Linux.
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(software) Any Unix-like operating system, including Unix.
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(computing) An approach to software development based on the experience of developing the Unix operating system, emphasizing the creation of minimalist, modular, extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed.
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(computing, slang, derogatory) A person enamored of Unix.
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rare spelling of Unix-like [(computing) Behaving similarly to Unix. Often used to describe systems which do not qualify for use of the Unix trademark.]
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(computing) Resembling or characteristic of Unix; Unix-like.
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(computing, informal) An idiom or behaviour that is characteristic of the Unix operating system.
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Alternative form of Unix-like [(computing) Behaving similarly to Unix. Often used to describe systems which do not qualify for use of the Unix trademark.]
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(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
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(computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
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(software, informal) The collection of tools, utilities, and user programs, found in a distro, outside of the kernel, for an operating system
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(computing) Initialism of Unix. [(computing) A computer operating system that shares the original source code by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, currently owned by Novell.]
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(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
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(computing) Windows Subsystem for Linux
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(computing, historical) A version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s.
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