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soneil
on Feb 16, 2021
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
It's a common way to express "things that are unix-like" and avoiding the pedanticism of what is & isn't an actual UNIX™
jehb
on Feb 16, 2021
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I tend to use *nix for things that are UNIX-like. I think of un*x in the older sense from the other parent "it's not actually UNIX and f*ck the trademark" but I'm not sure that dichotomy in my mind is useful anymore.
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