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Old 06-07-2005, 16:51   #29
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Re: Unix - what the hell is it?

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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
Here come the pedant police: Linux is a Unix clone, not strictly a Unix version

If you want to try Unix at home you can go for a BSD distribution, e.g.

FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD

Or Sun have just open sourced Solaris.
Heh, I think that people who complain that Linux is too user-unfriendly for them will have an even tougher time with BSD

I think that Sun's decision to open source Solaris was an extremely brave one to take, and also a highly commendable one. I really hope it pays off for them having taken such a risk. Although I've yet to use Solaris on an x86 box, I've only used it on SPARC machines. Anyone here tried it on an Intel box?
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