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On The Death Of Unix

Posted by Hemos on from the what-will-actually-happen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an interview with Red Hat Asia Pacific boss Gus Roberston, he tells ZDNet why he believes Unix will be dead since in future, there will only be two operating systems left (for corporations). "We don't see ourselves competing against Microsoft. We are taking market share away from Unix," he said. However, IDC counters Robertson's claim saying Unix market share has actually been increasing in that part of the world."

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  1. Oh really? by GeckoFood · · Score: 4, Informative

    That doesn't quite wash. Several government agencies here in the US have made a steady migration from Windows to UNIX or Linux. It appears that more are getting on the bandwagon, too. Such being the case, I can't see UNIX losing too much ground, at least in business. Maybe in the home market it has lost ground, but there seems to be a healthy move in favor of UNIX in the workplace in certain areas.

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  2. Re:Which Unix? by idiotnot · · Score: 5, Informative

    OSX is not Unix. It's not even a BSD, really. It's OpenStep, which is cocoa, mach, etc. etc. The BSD subsystem runs in the same address space as mach for performance reasons, but OSX is not running a BSD kernel. Get a mac, install NetBSD or OpenBSD (or even Linux), run dmesg, and compare it to the dmesg output of Darwin, and you'll see the difference.

    Don't get me wrong, I love OSX. But calling it Unix is a bit misleading.

  3. Re:Taking a moment for clarification. by wiredog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I apply the duck test. If it looks like Unix, acts like Unix, etc, then it's Unix. Of course, it's X Windows plus the GNU tools that make Linux look/quack/swim like Unix.

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  4. Re:Windows for desktop Linux for servers... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 4, Informative
    but I know too many people that can't even cope with Windows which (despite it's flaws) goes out of it's way to be easy enough for a child to use

    My wife (a militant non-geek History postgrad) has no difficulty in coping with Gnomeish interfaces on a Slackware box I set up for her. (And how many Windows users install their own OSs?)

    I even heard her gloating the other day to a friend who had been bitten by the virus du jour that since she runs Linux it didn't affect her...

    Heh. And who said Linux wasn't ready for the desktop?