Actually Linux and BSD are both "POSIX-compliant" operating systems. They use the same basic directory structure, and GNU/Linux and BSD distributions use many of the same basic software tools.
"UNIX" is not really an operating system -- it is a set of specifications for an operating system. Just as there are several different kinds of GNU/Linux distributions, there are several different implementations of UNIX, made by different companies.
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