interesting. but Little confusing.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote: > Lot of people seem unclear about whether at all there is UNIX today. > > And people think that other than Linux or Ubuntu or whatever there is > nothing else and > that Linux is a new form of UNIX and that UNIX is dead. > > The confusion is understandable since unless one is really curious and > has the ability to > learn on their own and is confident enough to think for oneself such > ideas do not enter > one's consciousness. Or you need a really good teacher in one of your > semesters in college. > > Having handled corporate trainings and having dealt with engineers I > feel that people are generally not > equipped to learn on their own and the curiosity and real interest > towards technology, engineering and > programming is lacking. > > But then our IT industry also is responsible for it but you cannot > blame external factors for the attitude of > a bunch of people. > > Okay, so Linux is really not new UNIX or a derivative of it though > both are somewhat true too. > > Linux has found lot of interest from hackers and a lot of UNIX ideas > can be found in Linux. > > And UNIX is not dead. It will never die. > > It gets absorbed and you can see its presence in various forms not > only in Linux but also in Windows. > > There is Cygwin, MingW and many others in Windows world and even > Windows NT apparently has some > Posix ideas though I am not sure if that is really true. > > So instead of thinking of UNIX as an OS it serves to think of UNIX as > a philosophy or a foundation. > > And in today's world all the BSDs are UNIX OSes and Solaris, > OpenSolaris, HP UX, AIX and few others are > also being used here and there. > > There is also no idea of distribution in the world outside Linux. > > When you take common embedded systems, routers, firewalls, mail > servers, load balancers and even telecom equipment they > all run some form of Linux or UNIX. > > In a veiled form UNIX always exists. > > Linux is not going to kill UNIX ever. And UNIX users are not going to > switch to using Linux instead.Everything has a place of its own. > > And one can be equally comfortable with both since there are plenty of > similarities. > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
