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> Yes, there is this strange idea in new generations that GNU/Linux is UNIX, without having tried DG/UX, Tru64, Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, Irix and many others. Actu

by CrLf 11y ago

> Yes, there is this strange idea in new generations that GNU/Linux is UNIX, without having tried DG/UX, Tru64, Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, Irix and many others. Actually, one can say that nowadays Linux is unix. It isn't Linux that has strayed outside the unix philosophy, it's the commercial unixes you've mentioned that have become stuck in the past. Even those that still get under-the-hood work and new features, are not even trying to become nicer to end-users (sysadmins). On second thought, they are, since you can easily install GNU utilities from vendor-provided repositories (on AIX you even use RPM to do it).

pjmlp 11y ago
Except AFAIK there are zero features in POSIX that came from GNU/Linux. Now, if anything I do agree that UNIX is stuck on the past by not having any standard workstation environment or adoption of modern kernel architectures. Also CDE is not what one would expect from a 2015 workstation.
- CrLf 11y ago
  > Except AFAIK there are zero features in POSIX that came from GNU/Linux. My point is that commercial unixes are old, dying, relics that don't define what unix is anymore, Linux does (and to a lesser extent, so do the BSDs). There is no such thing as a "real unix" anymore. > Also CDE is not what one would expect from a 2015 workstation. The unix workstation/desktop market was lost long ago. Unfortunately, Linux hasn't successfully recovered it and, IMHO, never will. The commercial vendors stopped caring when big hardware margins dissappeared and the opensource community lacks the unifying vision to build something sensible.