Why do people use "nix" or "*nix" when talking about Linux? "*nix" doesn't even glob to "Linux".
nix is commonly used to referred to both Unix and Linux
"A few months back I did some intense testing of all the best vulnerability scanners out there... I had a couple nix boxes hooked up, as well as some dozers, and figured I could add clients to a "once-a-week" scanning contract. So naturally, I wanted to use the scanner that was the best for my purpose.
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.