> 28 years ago no would would believe that Linux distributions would eventually kill commercial UNIX. That's certainly a fair point. I was thinking more along

> 28 years ago no would would believe that Linux distributions would eventually kill commercial UNIX. That's certainly a fair point. I was thinking more along the lines of that, at least in the scenario of consumer usage of Linux, some really interesting features are finally gaining traction from various companies (3D accelerators for instance). Was just fearing that ditching existing work for the new shiny thing would send us back to square one.