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Unix Isn't Dead

Posted by timothy on from the way-out-of-premature-burial dept.

windows bios world writes: "Compaq, Sun, SGI, and IBM are releasing new machines running Unix. From cnet.com: 'Compaq has begun shipping test versions of a new line of AlphaServer Unix servers using the EV7 "Marvel" version of the company's Alpha processor. ... As expected, IBM released on Monday its p670, a 16-processor machine that's essentially a smaller version of Big Blue's top-end 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server introduced in late 2001.' Also, Sun teamed up with Sony to release video-on-demand servers." And of course, there's OS X.

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  1. Re:who ever said it was? by doooras · · Score: 3, Funny

    but... i thought everyone used IIS?

  2. Unix isn't dead, it just smells funny. by AltGrendel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aww, c'mon. Laugh, it's funny.

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  3. The Question Isn't Whether UNIX is dead... by Spencerian · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but why Microsoft Windows considers itself really alive.

    Windows is a teenager--and a rude, aggressive, unpredictable one at that--compared to the various Unixen out there.

    To paraphrase "Dark Paladin" in a recent article about his Mac OS X conversion: Microsoft Windows is like your class president that didn't do shit. Linux is like a super-smart, sexy redhead girlfriend that's also a bit insane. Mac OS X is like the geeky girl at school who shed her braces and became a total hottie--and still wants to spend all her time hanging around with you.

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    1. Re:The Question Isn't Whether UNIX is dead... by Spencerian · · Score: 4, Funny

      To add to the girl/OS analogies (loved the articles, by the way, John--thanks for the contributions):

      BeOS was the super smart, sexy girl you lusted over, never asked out when you had the chance, and has disappeared from the Earth (probably married, likely dead).

      OS/2 was that beautiful college associate professor that killed herself before you asked her out because she was a crazy recluse whose professors told her she would be passed over for promotion yet again.

      Windows 3.1 was like that talking Barbie doll of your sister's whose hair you cut off after hearing it say "Math is hard" for the 3,000th time.

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      Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
  4. news.com.com by cpeterso · · Score: 3, Funny

    btw, when did News.com become News.com.com ?? What is this, 1999 or something? I wonder how much money they blew on purchasing Com.com. That was a great investment..

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  5. Unix is soooo hard... by ryanvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anyone know of a website or anything that could perhaps show me the way out?

  6. From the article by Rand+Race · · Score: 3, Funny
    Big Blue's newest machine will compete chiefly against the Unix servers from HP, long king of the midrange market, and from Sun, which will release its own midrange offering, the "Starkitty," on Tuesday.

    I can't imagine asking my boss to drop 150 large on a Starkitty.


    "Well sir, we can either go with the IBM p670 or the Sun Starkitty."

    "The IBM or WHAT!?"

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  7. I'm not dead yet! by angst_ridden_hipster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not dead!
    I'm not!
    I'm getting better!
    I don't want to go on the cart!
    I feel fine!
    I think I'll go for a walk.
    [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.

    (etc. Credit due the fine fellows of Python)

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  8. Meanwhile, in a parallel universe near you: by cosmo7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft releases Windows/X, a BSD-based unix with an open-source layer called Freud and a graphical interface called Water. The OS uses twin APIs; a cleaned up Win32 called Soot and (uh) Chocolate.

    1. Re:Meanwhile, in a parallel universe near you: by jafac · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft releases Windows/X, a BSD-based unix with an open-source layer called Freud and a graphical interface called Water. The OS uses twin APIs; a cleaned up Win32 called Soot and (uh) Chocolate.

      Yes, but they're still cleaning up problems with Freud, because quite often, child processes will become attached to the processes that spawned them.

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  9. The Flanders test by ocie · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think this story quite passes my "Flanders" test:

    [Rod shows Todd a headline: "Playtime Is Fun"]
    Todd: [gives thumbs-up] Go with it!

    If your headline can be substituted for "Playtime Is Fun" in the above, and it is still funny, then the story has failed the Flanders test.

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  10. Re:Does this mean ... by JesseL · · Score: 3, Funny

    (With apologies to Monty Python)
    PHB: Bring out your dead!
    MS: Here's one.
    Unix: I'm not dead.
    PHB: What!?
    MS: Nothing.
    Unix: I'm not dead!
    PHB: Ere', he says he's not dead.
    MS: Yes he is!
    Unix: I'm not!
    PHB: He isn't?
    MS: Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
    Unix: I'm getting better!
    MS: No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

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