[ale] Difference between UNIX'es

Chris Kilroy kilroyc at ufl.edu
Tue Nov 23 01:01:20 EST 1999


I agree w/ everything you say in principle, though there is a decent flavor of
"real" UNIX
that you can get for free, FreeBSD.  Which to quote my uncle:

"every flaming UNIX bigot seems to have on one of their hard drives"

To qualify that statement, my Uncle is an AIX adminstrator at Duke.

To qualify my statements, i too have FreeBSD on this very computer!

But i think Linux rocks

-Chris

"Glenn C. Lasher Jr." wrote:

> I like this response, it is detailed, and gets deeply into the
> philosophical matters of difference between Linux and other Unices.  I
> appreciate the point that Jeff is trying to make about Linux not being a
> variant/subset/superset of UNIX, however, although the philosophies and
> actual guts differ, Linux is essentially the product of
> reverse-engineering UNIX, and I consider it to be a flavour of unix (small
> u) when put together with all of the GNU goodies.
>
> More to the point, however, I think that Kalin might have been more
> interested in the practical at-the-keyboard differences, in which case, I
> would be inclined to say that I have used a large array of unices (my geek
> code contains 'ULAVH+++$' for those who understand geek code) and I find
> that in actual practice, Linux is the easiest of the OS's to operate, what
> with the incoropration of command line completion, editing and recall.  I
> sorely miss these features when working with the DEC^H^H^HCompaq servers
> at work.  Linux is far superior to any other unix flavour with which I
> have worked.
>
> It is also smaller.  I have been able to make practical use of a cast off
> '386 with 4MB of proprietary RAM (ergo, upgrades are impossible) and a 200
> MB HDD.  Not only does it work, it works well, and it is reasonably quick.
> I use it for a banger box (it is luggable) when making roadtrips, because
> unlike a laptop, you can't kill the thing!  It only makes sense that a
> machine of that ruggednes should have an operating system that is equally
> rugged, n'est-ce pas?
>
> It is also the only decent flavour of unix I can afford to have on my home
> machine.... exclusively.  I don't do Windows.  What other operating system
> offers itself, with a decent-sized user community, in the under $100
> range, and thus frees you from Bill the Gates?
>
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