1 Oct
2017
1 Oct
'17
10:37 p.m.
On 09/28/2017 10:58 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
What is your favorite UNIX. Three possible
categories, choose one or more:
1) Free
2) Forced to use a commercial platform. I guess that could include
macOS and z/OS with some vivid imagination, maybe even NT.
3) Historical
1) Linux - not the greatest, by far, but it gets the job done and
pays
the bills ( in my case, anyway ). And it still has good long term
viability, as of 2017, anyway.
2) Solaris - Sun finally got it right starting with Solaris 7, and it
just got better from there. I ran it for many, many years on my Home
Ultra 5.
Really sad to see what Oracle did to it! I use to have boss say that
Solaris was the UNIX geek's UNIX, he might be right ( altho these days
that's probably BSD ).
3) Irix - Not the best UNIX, but damn, those workstations it ran on WERE
the best. I miss my Indigo R4K/Elan almost as much as I do my Ultra 5
with Solaris 9 on it!
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-- Derrik
Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
dwalker(a)doomd.net
"Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak