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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. How by PD · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about a fricking link?

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  2. Here's a Link to the Actual Story by nathanm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a link to the actual story. It'd be nice if the /. editors could include it.

  3. That would have made MUCH more sence... by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the article title was 'ALPHA isn't Dead. Unix's lifespan really isn't in jeopardy.

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  4. Re:64-bit life? by Refried+Beans · · Score: 5, Informative

    IRIX 6.5
    "SGI Fifth Generation 64-Bit UNIX Operating System"
    http://www.sgi.com/software/irix6.5/

    AIX 5.1
    "AIX is fully integrated to support existing 32- and 64-bit hardware..."
    http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/ index.html

    Solaris 8
    "Designed for multiprocessing and 64-bit computing..."
    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris /ds/ds-sol8oe/

    Tru64 UNIX
    With a name like that, do you have to ask?
    http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/index.html

    Any questions?

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:Silly people *tsk,tsk,tsk* by josh+crawley · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trye, but has it changed? Programs still have problems (crashes). Still the major problems were SUID's.

    Take good old colorview from SGI machines. It was a X-server color profile viewer, but it was suid. Guess what.... it didnt even look to see if it was a valid color profile. You could read people's mailboxes with this one, or the shadow passwd file. My personal opinion of older SGI boxes were that SGI didnt care a rat's ass about thier software. They just whipped crapplications up and gave them all root access.

    Or next in the list, is the /dev/audio bug. This is NOT a crash, but just a weird setting. Older Sun boxes sold in the earliy ninties came with mics. Net admins usually connected it, usually for the novelty. Another detail is that these mics had no ON light or button (you couldnt tell if it's being used or recording) However, Sun screwed up (accidently) in the permissions. it was 0666. For those who don't know *nix, this means everybody can read and write to the sound device (essentially, listen and play over the speakers). Eavesdropping itself is *NOT* a hole. This just let users eavesdrop.

    Bugs have always existed and will always exist. Just saying it really sucked then but now is ok is just a cop out. It sucked at first, cause software is revamped by developers. That doesn't just happen immediately.