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ComputerGuru on Sept 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Haiku R1/beta1 has been released

Apple does not have a Unix user space shim, macOS is a Unix OS with non-Unix userspace built on top of that.

But, yes, WSL proves the point.

pjmlp on Sept 29, 2018 [–]

Layer != shim, unless I got my English wrong.

My remark was into the sense of those using OS X and WSL as pretty GNU/Linux.

In this context, a certified UNIX has a couple of surprises to those that never left GNU/Linux.

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