Unixoid

Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.

Adjective

  1. Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
    • Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. - 1996, Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, third edition, page 459:
    • While this question is perfectly reasonable if the environment consists of large numbers of Microsoft Windows desktop machines and a few servers, in a Unixoid data center with lots of servers, or a Unix environment with...

    Synonyms: Unixish Unix-like Unixy

Origin

From Unix + -oid.

Forms

more Unixoid most Unixoid

Noun

  1. A Unix user.
    • From the perspective of erstwhile Unixoids, those are all toy operating systems, while Unix is what you use when you have real work to do […] - 1995, G. Burgess Allison, The Lawyer's Guide to the Internet, page 339:

Forms

Unixoids