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sofy60

February 27th, 2006, 12:44

Unix and linux

Did these two operating systems meld together somehow ? You dont see much of unix anymore.

ingfina

February 27th, 2006, 13:14

No. Unix is based on a system developed by AT&T. Linux was a system developed 15 (?) years later and was very heavily inspired by unix. Linux nowadays uses most of the programs originally written for Unix.

Some people claim that unix is still more stable+reliable than linux. Unix OSes are: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX....many many more.

link92

February 27th, 2006, 13:30

Most of those *nixes you mentioned are also unix copies, and not actually unix based.

Tree

February 27th, 2006, 15:06

Never, ever, ever use AIX. People in the industry call it "Awful IX". Horrible to work with and so picky.

HP-UX is pretty good though.

ingfina

February 27th, 2006, 15:24

Most of those *nixes you mentioned are also unix copies, and not actually unix based.
Semantics. :-)
For a nice overview: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#13

I actually forgot to mention a pretty popular one: MacOS X