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On 4/18/11 8:23 AM, Damon Chesser wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was talking to a Unix guy today at work
and he said he is getting used to Linux, but one thing he
noticed is “Linux is about as mature as Unix was 10 years
ago”. He said that many of the things you have to do manually
in Linux is done automatically for you in Unix. It was a
short conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am curious, having never used Unix,
anybody have a clue what he might have meant?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";">Damon Chesser</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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That's a statement that's bizarre on more than one level. For
starters, one would have to nail down what he means by "Unix" -
Wikipedia says "Today's Unix systems are split into various
branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various
commercial vendors and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit" class="mw-redirect"
title="Non-profit">non-profit</a> organizations." If he means
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. then he needs to so state.<br>
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Now, I'm not familiar with all (really, any) of the Unix-proper
branches so I can't speak to their development velocity or maturity
, but the Linux kernel by all accounts undergoes rather extensive
development continuously and at the module level, quite closely
follows hardware as it becomes available as long as the hardware
specifications are sufficiently open.<br>
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