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Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her daughters. Unlike her attitude towards vintage OS-tans, she approaches her children with a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die altogether. She believes that this natural-selection approach makes her family stronger; while it has certainly strengthened individuals, it has fostered infighting and selfishness and undermined their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods - and often times, lives - of their less successful kin.

An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Leopard-tan, with Leopard being the first Mac OSX sibling to be granted the Single Unix Specification. Knowing that she would become a time-traveler who would eagerly pledge loyalty to the Unix Family, Unix, in a rare act of philanthropy towards any of her descendants, gave funding for Leopard's research project that would become her time machine. After the time machine was built, Unix hired her to travel through time and ensure survival of the Unix Family to maintain a stable time loop. Leopard-tan caught onto this, and didn't take kindly to the thought of being used.  

While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family (as her family had done to earlier generations of computers), sometime toward the end of the Unix Wars Unix-tan realized that the salvation of her people and way of life lies with the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her society and since then the young open sourceress has risen high in the Unix Hierarchy ranks, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix.

Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional, however. Since their first collaborations the two have been friends, slowly becoming best friends in the decades they've known each other. In various stories, there have been hints that the two are akin to soul-mates and that there are strong feelings for one another that go past "mere" friendship and into romantic territory. This has been confirmed in various storyline proposals by their original creators and should be considered canon.