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If you are doing "Linux programming" instead of UNIX programming, you are most likely doing something wrong.
by kev009 11y ago
If you are doing "Linux programming" instead of UNIX programming, you are most likely doing something wrong.
- stonemetal 11y agoUsing the higher performance Linux specific interfaces like epoll isn't doing it wrong, it is getting the most out of your platform. Perhaps it is doing it wrong to use it directly instead of a library in application code, but someone still has to know enough to write the library.
- tkinom 11y agoWhere can I find a "UNIX" distribution to try? :-) Linux are in every android cell phones, PI, pc, etc.
- stonemetal 11y agoBuy a Mac, OS X is a certified UNIX.
- cbd1984 11y agoz/OS is legally UNIX. So's HP-UX and Solaris (probably not any of the Open Source variants, however). None of the Open Source BSDs qualify as UNIX, however.
- dang 11y agoThis sort of comment could be based on real knowledge, but it's hard to tell because you just gave us a conclusion rather than showing us how you came to it. A better comment would add information: give an example or two, tell a story, or say what's behind your thinking somehow.