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Comment by throw75586886

7 hours ago

Linux can’t be listed, because Linux is not an operating system. It’s just a kernel. Unix specifies a whole operating system, which includes things like libc, cat, sh etc.

At best a distro could be certified. But that certification would not automatically extend to other distros.

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