Subj : what flavors?
To   : John Donohue
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Mon Jan 06 2003 04:45 pm

Hello John!

Dec 25 00:53 02, John Donohue wrote to All:

 JD> What flavors/versions of *nix are you all using at home or at work, 
 JD> OTHER THAN linuxes/freebsd?

There are some OpenBSD machines here for special purposes, and our Suns are 
mostly running on Solaris. There rest is Linux/FreeBSD, as you already guessed.

 JD> Lately I've come to have a subjective impression that on anything 
 JD> less then  'big iron', most of the sco, solaris, at&t, ultrix, etc 
 JD> boxes have been replaced by open source running on generic intel 
 JD> hardware.  (or maybe that's a separate question?)

That's a general development that can be seen here, too.


Regards,
Gerrit

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