So, who exactly is left, other than Solaris, in the UNIX arena?
IBM?, AIX Micro, Dyanmic, and VIO Partitions are kinda neat and they are
supported on their big database servers as opposed to Sun Logical Domains.
Granted this is mostly a firmware/hardware hack, but hey we need some other
aspects to "discuss".
Jordan
On 5/17/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Solaris has many features which should be moving
> people from Linux to
> Solaris
> on mass. Unfortunately, a lot are turned off by some
> things which
> should have been
> fixed in Solaris a long time ago. Hopefully Project
> Indiana will address
> these.
Just because Solaris doesn't function like Linux does not make it broken.
("Fix" implies something is broken.)
What exactly do you believe to be broken in Solaris?
> A question. When is the next Unix standard expected
> to be finalised? Do you
> at least now the year, and who is going to release
> it? What is it going
> to be
> based on?
Does it really matter? Except for Solaris, which UNIX out there is really
innovating? SGI IRIX hit the way of the dodo when SGI in its infinite wisdom
axed it and decided to beg and plead mercy before the sitting penguin. Like
that's gonna save them!
Meanwhile hardcore IRIX users are migrating en masse, not to Linux or
HP-UX, but get this - to Solaris on SPARC! And judging by what they're
writing on nekochan.net, they like Solaris. As well they ought to, since
they migrated from one System V UNIX to another.
HP-UX? Now that's a joke. hp being the braindead company they are, first
killed off DECUnix (pardon, "Tru64"), and they haven't really done much of
anything other than some minimal catching up, all while grinding their
teeth, on HP-UX.
I should know, since I have pretty recent HP-UX systems - at home!
So, who exactly is left, other than Solaris, in the UNIX arena? There is
nobody to set any standards, and there is nobody to follow them - just
Solaris left not to break the existing ones.
Any new standards will be set by Solaris for everybody else to follow.
That's about the only UNIX left that is still innovating.
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