[NTLUG:Discuss] difference between linux and solaris

[Mark Bickel]

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> Mark Bickel wrote:
> > 
> ...snip...
> > And yes, really learning Linux at a very detailed level will help you with other
> > *nix OSes. Learning *BSD on PC can help too, as some commercial *nix OS are more
> > of the BSD flavour than SysV.
> 
> Hey Mark.
> How many of them are there now??  Ultrix..dead...SunOS..sorta dead..SCO is out...
> AIX, HPUX, DGUX, Motorola, NCR, Tandem, Unixware..all SysV variants (either
> licensed it from AT&T or mimicked it).
> 
> Tru64 (the last major OSF variant)... OS/X (if it's similar to anything
> right now, I'm sure Apple will change it).
> 
> I'm having trouble thinking of anything out there....oh...I guess IRIX
> to a large extent (many of the MIPS based machines used BSD variants...but
> when they kinda died out, so did their vendor OSs).
> 
> Just curious,
> Chris

Hard to tell exactly what Caldera will do now that they've acquired SCO's 
UNIX products.

I think you're right. Most of the commercial BSD flavours of *nix have kinda
died out. IRIX and BSDI are still out there but not so much else. Of course
there are a lot of ISPs who use freeBSD or NetBSD, so those count as commercial
uses of non-commercial BSD variants.

Otherwise: Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX - all UNIX SysV type systems - comprise the 
lion's share of commercial UNIX currently being deployed.

My first exposure to *nix was back in the late 80's: Charles River Data Systems'
UNOS was a BSD derivitive. Next I learned DEC's Digital UNIX and ULTRIX.
I played with Coherent when the 80386 was the hot new CPU for the PC.
Incidentally I learned DOS and later Windows at the same time I was learning
UNIX so naturally I have been favourably biased towards Unix ever since.

Solaris and HP-UX came later for me, about the time ('94) I discovered this
wonderful free OS with the funny spelling. The next year I found this flyer
up on a bulletin board at ProTech Books (written by a certain Kendall Clark)
announcing the formation of a Linux Users Group for the North Texas area ...

Cheers,
Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com