What is unix?

[hello]

is that not a web page editor like frontpage

[Blade]

no, they're operating systems (mandrake linux, windows xp)

[rizzix]

i've setup, installed, uninstalled, a thousand times now UNIX/Linux systems. I personally run my own favourite, which unlike other UNIX/Linux systems is HIGHLy productive, for any one. I use MACOSX now. It rocks. I believe it currently holds on of the most advanced technologies embeded in it. Coo eh! Windows Longhorn, will come to this standard only after 2005, which is ample amount of time for the NEXT,NEXT generation MacOS. Heh, i can't wait. ya windws is pretty much behind. Anyways the only reason UNIX systems are used as servers, is b/c, as i said it is not a very productive environment for almost everyone.

But o well, now i simply have UNIX installed on my comps (no dual boot!) for the sake of its amazing power, hence a great server platform. Other wize i simply use OSX.

o btw: catalyst, ur a great programmer, and i belive ur interested in the graphics programming/games etc. Listen up get a mac, u'll go crazy!

[Catalyst]

thx for the tip
ive been considering getting a mac recently but have yet to find the $

[FDisk87]

I have set up many UNIX/Linux machines in my day, including Solaris on x86 (I was bored one day, I wish I had an Ultra SPARC iii), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mandrake Linux, Gentoo, Red Hat all versions from 5 and Knoppix to a HDD. I hope to buy a MAC one day to use OS X but for now I am stuck to x86

[rizzix]

nice!! tried installing debian.. its a real pain.. i finally got that installed.. then later on i screwed up the whole system by corrupting the display drivers.. meh.. just to warn u guys.. hehe be careful, every OS is vulnerable at its roots. nevertheless i'm too lazy to try fix that thing.. or reinstall =/ o well..

[PaddyLong]

linux is pretty fuckin cool , so cool that I'm likely gonna switch over to it to use as my main os pretty soon ... next semester I start with linux/unix shell programming which should be pretty interesting

[Blade]

i switched over to redat 9 in september, then Fedora core when it came out.... i had tonnes of problems with FC, so 2 days later i got Slackware 9.1 and ever since then i've been on it.... i like it the most... i've seen tonnes of other ones but i'm happy with slack.

i'll have to admit there are tonnes of die-hard windows fans out there, and the only reason i can think of being why, is because its "easier" to learn... anyone could probably pick up a comp and with a lil playing around they could have it figured out in no time... but there are too many downsides to it for me...

i have about 1600 people at my school, and i can count on one hand how many people use an OS other then windows. the people that dont use windows are the only ones that know there's such a thing as an os other then windows... so my school doesn't have the benefit of offering that course.

[PaddyLong]

yeah I was planning to try out slackware... I've heard it's pretty good from a few other people. we worked with red hat 7.2 in our operating systems class this semester, I found it really really easy to set up... we had dual booting between windows 95 (and also dos obviously...) and linux

I think the situation you have about no one knowing there's such thing as other oses than windows is probably the same pretty much everywhere you go except for people who actually work in the high tech field or are interested in it in some way....

[rizzix]

wel u see guys.. i dunno about slackware and the others but almost every software created (for linux specially) is packaged for redhat, debian and gentoo. now also macosx as metapkg (but this not only include the specially designed software for linux but also unix) through the metapkg.org alliance (mostly fink ).

never the less if i chose linux i'd go for redhat/suse. but if i chose unix i'd go for freebsd! those are the best u can get in terms of compatibility, performance and security on an overall average.

specilly compatibility/availability

--my 2 cents