On Fri, 14 May 2004, Andy Sy wrote: .. > > I have extensive experience with Linux, Solaris, SunOS (anybody remember > > that?) BSD and IRIX. And the similarities far outweigh the differences. > > Sure, the 'similarities far outweigh the differences', especially > usage-wise. But to me the phrase "a unix is a unix is a unix" connotes > something like 99% identical, which I would not say is the case, > especially if you are aware of what lies under the hood or if you are > doing programming.
Yeah I also do programming, and in my experience the similarities DO outweight the differences. Sure you have to know about little gotcha's in the individual implementations (e.g. Solaris -lsocket -lnsl is just -lsocket on IRIX, and you don't need it at all for Linux and BSD, to give a trivial example) and yes, "a unix is a unix is a unix" is somewhat of an oversimplification, but as long as they're all POSIX 1003.1 compliant (and they all are..) it's not a large oversimplification. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
