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Guix! … does guix count as a unix derivative?
I do suppose Linux is a Unix derivative. So you're closest. But no cigar.
Linux is like Unix but not derivate
Heavily inspired by? I understand that Linux is not derived from Unix source code. But the system architecture... Is extremely similar and in many ways functionally the same.
In art, music, literature, architecture, and ideas, something can be derivative because it inherits a form, vocabulary, conventions, conceptual framework, or design tradition from something earlier.