Working in a MS, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 shop, I find that for the vast majority of our servers the usability of Linux is as good as Unix if not better. While Unix might have high end bits Linux lacks for 95% of the world's servers that small missing % I suspect is not an issue.
regards thing -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 1:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Linux Unix? On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:35:11AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > heh....and at the rate Linux is taking over Unix space he like RISC based Unix > > will be going the way of the dodo. > > > > ;] > > > > Considering how many "Unixes" run Open source applications and utilities I find it > laughable that ppl can look down on Linux. Simple answer is Linux is not Unix > because its better > (or going to be). From an operational point of view I have found that there is > little Unix can do > that Linux cannot, and certainly plenty Linux can do that Unix cannot, kernel > compatibility and > cost effective hardware see to that. The LWN report on the first day of the Linux Kernel Summit gives a very interesting perspective on what Unix can do that Linux still can't. If you're an LWN subscriber, the article is available now. For non-subscribers, it will be available for free next week. See http://lwn.net. The projects at www.osdl.org (Linus Torvald's current employer) also give an interesting perspective on the features Linux still needs in order to catch up with commercial unix in some areas. Of course in many areas it kicks commercial linux. I have to work on AIX as well as linux, and there's many times a day I wish this was a pure linux shop. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
