home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: solon.com!not-for-mail
- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 07:03:43 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4jok7f$1l2@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <dewar.827955102@schonberg> <Dp28JB.y0@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> <dewar.828332940@schonberg>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com
-
- In article <dewar.828332940@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >For me, typical Unix systms = AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX, HPUX etc. Lots of
- >people rushed to say that Linux could run on small systems. True
- >enough, but Linux is NOT a "typical Unix system"!
-
- No? How so? It's at least as common as any other, probably, and quite
- widely distributed. It's recently been POSIX certified, or so we hear.
-
- Part of the charm of Unix is that there are two completely unrelated free
- implementations, and one of those has a small family (OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
- and NetBSD.)
-
- But the cool thing is that NetBSD-1.1, or Linux-1.2, is a perfectly usable,
- complete system, and you get a source license. I use NetBSD professionally,
- and SunOS professionally, and right now, NetBSD has only one weakness
- SunOS doesn't (an arcane VM problem, which has no effect on most systems),
- and tons of advantages over SunOS. It's certainly, by far, a more mature
- and stable system.
-
- It also beats out other commercial OS's like NT, for performance on any
- given supported hardware, number of platforms supported (>10), and, of
- course, price and availability. :)
-
- >It is also true that Unix once ran fine on 128K byte PDP 11's, but I
- >am talking of a typical commercial Unix implementation, including X
- >and Motif.
-
- Ahh. So I could point out that DOS is much bigger than Unix - that is,
- DOS including an X server, networking software, word processors, a couple
- gigs of shareware games, and an Amiga emulator.
-
- Hardly fair.
-
- -s
- --
- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
- C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really!
- FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.]
- The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html
-