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The unity of Unix

It started out as a good article and didn't favor linux and mentioned BSD (so thats good) until I got to the second page. Thats where the typical FUD started coming in.

What it does mean is that the Red Hat guy's ramp-up to Solaris competence is very small compared to the hurdles faced by a competitor whose experience is encapsulated by an MCSE designation.

No, what it means is you hired an incompetent person. If they can't transfer basic skills of setting up accounts and file permissions then they shoulld have MCSE.

People who categorize the Unix market as splintered or fractured are generally trying to compare it unfavorably to Microsoft's Windows. That's simply wrong:

No its right, you just don't want to admit it.

Windows is a brand, Unix a set of ideas. The Windows brand has been consistently handled, but there's essentially no continuity of ideas between the 3.0, 95, NT, and Longhorn Windows generations. The Unix hardware makers, in contrast, have tried hard to differentiate their products through branding when, in reality, all of their products have been part of the same family.

Uh no they haven't. Each Unix is so different from the next (except the BSDs cuz they are uber-leet) they are not the same, especially linux.

Remember, there are bad guys -- companies that value money over progress -- in the race, but if you work with Red Hat the enemy isn't Sun; and if you work with OS X the enemy isn't Linux. For any Unix, the enemy is Microsoft.

Couldn't be farther from the truth. Companies are out to make money, its calling being FOR PROFIT. Thats what companies do. If you are Red Hat, your enemy is Sun, Microsoft, and Apple. Anyone not running Red Hat would be their enemy. If you run OS X the enemy is linux, but thats a moot point now that OS X is taking linux share and soon it will be dead. For any unix the enemy is not Microsoft, but anyone not using your software.

There's a simple, personal bottom line to this: Unix is Unix, the benefits come from openness, community, and 50 years of consistent progress in the implementation of a handful of key ideas.

You forget the other parts of the bottom line, bashing MS every chance you get, talking out of your butt, flaming new people.

Next time your feeling low self esteem and feel the need to bash Microsoft so you can raise it and your ego by the praise of all 10 linux users you should probably do it on a site thats dedicated to such things and operating systems.

Posted by: Loverock Davidson   Posted on: 07/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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