Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 12:12 UTC (Sat) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117)
In reply to: Version 7 Linux by willy
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window

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.