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From: madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com (Michael Kerpan)
Subject: [TUHS] Favorite UNIX
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 11:27:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHfSdrXP6exADuUkPRzBSuqEubRM2wvsSx8tfX+MgCwrKjfUPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtBjgVeoEraveDDC1rhG+Aors_KAWeoy6HKpCV_vy9EdmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sep 28, 2017 11:02 PM, "Kevin Bowling" <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> 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. FreeBSD is best of breed, these days. It's logical, stuff tends to just
work, and it just feels right.

2. I don't have much experience with modern commercial Unix. A few of my
friends really like macOS (formerly OS X, nee NeXTSTEP), but it's
artificially locked to Apple hardware so I've never really tried it.
Frankly, I do most of my daily computing on Windows, which works fine for
video games, word processing, web browsing, graphics work, and hosting VMs
to run FreeBSD in.

3. NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is still really cool. The kernel is a mess and the
whole PostScript as primary display was less than ideal for graphics
performance, but it was cool and nobody's done a graphical UI as well since.

Mike
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-01 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-29  2:58 Kevin Bowling
2017-09-29  3:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29  3:36   ` Kevin Bowling
2017-09-29  6:56   ` Mutiny 
2017-09-29 14:14     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-29 12:08   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-30 15:40 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 17:53   ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-30 18:34     ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 18:45       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01  0:36       ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01  0:51         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-01  1:10           ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01  1:13             ` Cory Smelosky
2017-10-01  3:43             ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01 14:07             ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-01  3:05       ` Michael Parson
2017-10-01  3:15         ` Kevin Bowling
     [not found]       ` <201710011513.v91FDSMB011831@freefriends.org>
2017-10-01 19:35         ` Michael Parson
2017-10-01 15:27 ` Michael Kerpan [this message]
2017-10-01 16:37 ` [TUHS] " Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-10-01 16:51   ` George Michaelson

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