Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 13, 2026 20:20 UTC (Fri) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
In reply to: Version 7 Linux by bof
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window

> Version 7 Linux, just 47 years after the original

Version 7 was already repeated with the introduction of UnixWare 7 in 1998. That is a bit less than half-way between the first UNIX v7 and now.

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Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 4:59 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (7 responses)

HP-UX made it to version 7 in 1990!
Solaris 7 was 1998
FreeBSD 7 was 2008
AIX 7.1 was 2010
IRIX stopped at 6.5.30
Tru64 and Ultrix both stopped before 7

Any major Unix variants I forgot?

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 6:54 UTC (Sat) by bof (subscriber, #110741) [Link]

The last Sinix (by Siemens) version, which was the first Unix that I got to use back in the days, stopped at 5.43, in 1995. By then I was already fully on Linux, and did not miss it at all.

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 12:12 UTC (Sat) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117) [Link]

There's the UNIX V7 certification:
<https://unix.org/unixv7.html>

It's called V7 because it certifies that a system conforms to Issue 7 of the SVID/XPG/SUS/POSIX lineage of specifications.

In practice, it means conformance to POSIX.1-2008 plus some extensions required for SUS.

Probably the worst of all names they could have chosen.

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 21:49 UTC (Sat) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link] (4 responses)

> Any major Unix variants I forgot?

Emacs was at version 13 (after renumbering from 1.12) already in 1985.

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 22:09 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (3 responses)

But Emacs is a Lisp Machine, not a Unix derivative

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 19, 2026 23:52 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link] (2 responses)

Na, na - as everybody knows, "Emacs is an operating system" that just happens to have an integrated editor. Google searches confirm that, and we know that Google is always right.

;-) :-)

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 20, 2026 0:12 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, my point is that Emacs is of an entirely different heritage from Unix. Its lineage starts on ITS, then it was ported to the MIT Lisp Machine, then to Unix. Essentially it treats Unix as a grudging substrate; the Emacs OS is a universe of Lisp

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 20, 2026 0:31 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

Agreed, and well said.