Subj : what flavors?
To   : John Donohue
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Wed Jan 01 2003 06:15 pm

 Hello !

25 Dec 02 00:53, 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? Lately I've come to have a subjective
 JD> impression that on anything less then  'big iron', most of the sco,
 JD> solaris, at&t, ultrix, etc boxes have been replaced by open source
 JD> running on generic intel hardware.  (or maybe that's a separate
 JD> question?)

Sun Solaris on Sparc. But some applications have been transferred to dual intel 
processor machines running Linux already, and it is only a matter of time until 
Solaris machine are abandonned totally, most likely in favor of Linux, simply 
because it is cheaper to have several powerful intel than one big powerful 
solaris. Charge is easier to modulate as well. The solaris machine currently 
has some 45 cpu, to give you an idea of the computing power needed.

Other than that, there are still a couple of HP unix and Sinix (Siemens' unix), 
but those are definitely phasing out.

Happy new year.

 Francois Thunus

Of course I'm running Windows#d+o+ NO CARRIER

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