[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kes289$14a$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> In article <kerjg4$u78$2 at dont-email.me>,
>
> The differences in the various true Unix versions are trivial at best.
> The biggest differences are in the proprietary Unixes where they were
> delibrately introduced in an attempt to differentiate a product, garner
> more sales and lock customers in.  I think it is fairly safe to conclude
> at this point that the real Unixes [Free|Open|Net]BSD are similar to point
> that there is no program written for one that will not compile and run on
> another.  And that they outsnumber the proprietary Unixes in number of
> installed systems.

   Now you get to argue over what "true UNIX" means.  Not a profitable
   discussion.

   In practice, amoung UNIX and Linux I've found that to the end user
   all UNIX are basically the same.  To the application programmer
   there are some differences.  To the system admin they are greatly
   different.  I don't find the differences between Linux and UNIX
   any greater than the differences within the UNIX world.  And all
   too great, anyhow.