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From: dwalker@doomd.net (Derrik Walker v2.0)
Subject: [TUHS] Favorite UNIX
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 12:37:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c67dd27b-3041-dc2b-f701-5828f423c47a@doomd.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtBjgVeoEraveDDC1rhG+Aors_KAWeoy6HKpCV_vy9EdmQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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!

-- 
-- Derrik

Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
dwalker at doomd.net

"Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-01 16:37 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 ` [TUHS] " Michael Kerpan
2017-10-01 16:37 ` Derrik Walker v2.0 [this message]
2017-10-01 16:51   ` George Michaelson

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