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|debut = Feb 2007 (preconcept), Sep 2007 (finished)
|debut = Feb 2007 (preconcept), Sep 2007 (finished)
|height = 5'0" (153 cm)
|height = 5'0" (153 cm)
|haircolor= Very dark purple with purple highlights
|haircolor= Dark purple with purple highlights
|eyecolor= Deep blue with vivid blue highlights
|eyecolor= Deep blue with bright blue highlights
|weapon = Fire magic, various sorcery techniques, metal staff
|weapon = Fire magic, various sorcery techniques, metal staff
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]
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===Family and relationships===
===Family and relationships===
====Her Descendants====
====Her Descendants====
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.
Like the Linux-tans and many "contemporary" OS-tan societies, the Unixes reproduce via exogenesis, meaning large numbers of offspring can be created quite easily and with little personal involvement from their genetic-donors. As such, Unix-tan has found herself with hundreds of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of whom have varying levels of relationship to their "matriarch" due to extensive genetic manipulation.


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.  
Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her family and 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 also 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 in the process.
 
An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Mac OS X Leopard-tan. Uncharacteristically, Unix reached out to the OS X family after the birth of Leopard and later offered to become a patron to the young genius, going as far as granting her status as a full-blooded Unix (via the Single Unix Specification), putting her among an elite few. Later, Unix revealed her interest was not entirely altruistic; she funded Leopard's education and research in physics in an attempt to spark the creation of time travel technology which Unix could co-opt for her own purposes, specifically performing inter-temporal reconnaissance to ensure the continued success of the Unix race.  


====With Linux====
====With Linux====
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.
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 their way of life lies with the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her society and since then the young open sourceress has ascended high in the Unix hierarchy, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix herself.


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.  
Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional. Although their first meeting was fraught with mutual distrust, they quickly came to develop a deep respect for one another - admiration that slowly gave way to affection, at first platonic, but later romantic. There have been many hints that this is due to their many shared experiences and complementary personalities making them akin to soul mates. Although Unix-tan kept her feelings toward Linux to herself for years in fear of ruining their professional relationship and friendship, she and Linux eventually confessed their love for each other and entered into a relationship, albeit one carried on in secrecy to avoid politically trouble with their oftentimes opposing sub-factions.  


====Vintage OS-tans====
====Vintage OS-tans====
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans. This is often explained as being due to some sense of regret for her displacement of the mainframe-tans that preceded her and whose livelihoods she (in part) ruined. As well, she has a general affection for computers less powerful and capable than herself and she enjoys making their lives better.  
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans, partially out of regret for her role in destroying the lives of so many OS-tans that came before her, partially out of a sense of charity for the less powerful and capable in society. She has shown her compassion and desire to make amends by funding [[Amiga]]-tan's creation of the Binteji Renmei, a society dedicated to saving outdated and abandoned OS-tans from a world often uncaring, and sometimes outright hostile, to their kind.  


==History and Background==
==History and Background==

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