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2025-07-17,
of Unixen and spectrums

evening on Khwae Yai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

2016-08-15 – Nikon D3300
evening on Khwae Yai, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

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Linux was inspired by Unix and, as it grew, it adapted a lot of the conventions of Unix – but at the same time, there’s also been a lot of divergence between the two – more people are familiar with the BSDs than pure UNIX – and the Linux side has pretty much settled on systemd and GNU utils – but at the same time, a few smaller distros are adapting BSD-isms to one degree or another – the package managers for Gentoo, Void, and Alpine have more in common with the BSD side than the standards of apt and dnf – in a search to save space, several distros have chosen BusyBox over GNU utils – and now we have the rise of Chimera Linux taking this trend to the next step, replacing even larger swaths of the OS either with BSD equivalents (or at least, non-Linux equivalents)

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