From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:56:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314155631.GD32726@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9deec795-ecd6-7924-c10f-b722ee388a0c@kilonet.net>
SunOS wasn't multi threaded. Linux seems to have done that pretty well
without getting all bloated (unlike early Solaris releases, I can't
speak to the later ones).
Linux is just more mature, has had more people working on it (which is
both a good and a bad thing). And didn't have Sun's stick in the mud
approach to compat that made things like /proc in Solaris way way way
less useful than Linux' /proc.
So it's really hard to say.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:51:47AM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> But how far along are we on the Linux timeline, and how far along was Sun on
> the SunOS timeline before they stopped developing it?
>
> It's been 23 or so years since my first exposure to Linux.
>
> SunOS started at 1.0 in 1983, and last release was just before 1995. 12
> years in total. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
>
> Now, of course, I understand SunOS is based on BSD so there is a lot more
> work invested in SunOS before Sun even started on it which adds another 10
> years (maybe less) to the SunOS development timeline. But in reality, how
> much of Linux was based on previous works?
>
> Just a thought experiment, nothing more.
>
>
> On 3/14/2017 11:38 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >As someone who dedicated a bunch of his life to Unix, it pains me to say
> >it but Linux is better than a lot of the Unix systems from back in the
> >day. I loved SunOS but I wouldn't trade today's Linux for SunOS and I
> >don't think there are very many people who would disagree.
> >
> >It got better than "good enough".
> >
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-14 14:43 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 15:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-14 15:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 15:56 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-03-14 15:57 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-14 16:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 18:06 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:31 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 18:59 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:20 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 19:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 14:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-15 15:36 ` Arthur Krewat
[not found] ` <58c9623b.law1Aw2ufj3DFNA1%schily@schily.net>
2017-03-15 15:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 15:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 17:43 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-15 19:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 19:14 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-14 18:41 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 18:16 ` [TUHS] GNU vs BSD before the lawsuit and before Linux Tony Finch
2017-03-17 18:52 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-03-19 7:18 ` arnold
2017-03-19 9:05 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-19 18:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 19:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-14 18:18 ` [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") Clem Cole
2017-03-14 16:20 ` tfb
2017-03-14 22:45 ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 1:11 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 7:55 ` arnold
2017-03-15 19:28 ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 19:35 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-15 23:22 ` 'Josh Good'
2017-03-15 19:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:27 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 20:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 23:46 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16 0:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 1:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-16 3:09 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-16 3:18 ` Charles Anthony
2017-03-16 3:36 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-16 4:08 ` arnold
2017-03-16 12:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16 13:18 ` William Pechter
2017-03-17 21:20 ` Josh Good
2017-03-16 15:42 ` Chet Ramey
2017-03-16 17:29 ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 23:55 ` Josh Good
2017-03-16 0:05 ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 20:08 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 0:46 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-16 0:52 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 19:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-17 2:16 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-17 15:55 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-14 19:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-14 20:05 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 20:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 20:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-14 21:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 15:40 Norman Wilson
2017-03-16 17:26 ` William Pechter
2017-03-16 18:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 22:17 ` Dave Horsfall
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