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Unixoid

Unixoid adjective: characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.

Adjective

Unixoid (comparative more Unixoid, superlative most Unixoid)

  1. (informal) 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 a large number of workstations that are remotely operated using SSH, the answer...2006, Benedikt Stockebrand, IPv6 in Practice: A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet, page 300
    Synonyms:
    Unixish, Unix-like, Unixy

Noun

Unixoid (plural Unixoids)

  1. (informal) 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

Synonyms of Unixoid

Forms of Unixoid

Adjective
comparativemore Unixoid
superlativemost Unixoid
Noun
pluralUnixoids

Origin of Unixoid

From Unix + -oid.

Questions about Unixoid

What does Unixoid mean?
Unixoid means characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
What part of speech is Unixoid?
Unixoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Unixoid in the dictionary

  1. Unixification
  2. Unixish
  3. Unixism
  4. Unixisms
  5. Unixlike
  6. Unixoid
  7. Unixoids
  8. Unixy
  9. unjabbed
  10. unjack
  11. unjacked

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