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To: Golden Eagle
No, I don't see the point in supporting a foreign clone of Unix when superior American originals like Sun Solaris and Apple OSX are readily available.

First, OS X is also a "clone" of the original AT&T UNIX.

Second, what is "UNIX"? Is it the codebase? No, it isn't. It has ZERO relation to whether the product is derived from AT&T UNIX. UNIX is defined as meeting the UNIX specifications of the OpenGroup, owner of the UNIX trademark. The only current products that are certified to be UNIX in its modern state (UNIX 03) are Solaris 10, AIX 5L and HP-UX 11. You can probably add OS X in a couple of months.

Otherwise, they're just other products, like Minix, BSD, Linux, and SCO's UnixWare (yep, not certified UNIX 03, but good for the 12 year-old standard) and OpenServer (never certified), that tend to act a lot like modern UNIX so are easy for someone with a UNIX background to use.

And as far as "superior" goes, that's just your opinion. And there is NO WAY you can honestly make a blanket claim of superiority without considering all of the factors for a specific installation of the system. Personally, I'd tend to go with OS X, but the circumstances of individual installation might lead me away from it.

And what's with this "foreign" thing again, when most of the code was written by Americans, and even under American corporations?

Especially not a clone that's endorsed by every communist nation on earth,

If the dictator car of choice is Mercedes, does that mean we should stop buying them out of principle? The Al Qaeda computers found so far were running Windows, so should we boycott the Windows "The Choice of Terrorists" operating system?

51 posted on 03/09/2007 9:51:18 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

^^^^^^^^^^The Al Qaeda computers found so far were running Windows, so should we boycott the Windows "The Choice of Terrorists" operating system?^^^^^^^^^^^

I'll be using that if you don't mind.

:-)


55 posted on 03/09/2007 10:07:56 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: antiRepublicrat
The only current products that are certified to be UNIX in its modern state (UNIX 03) are Solaris 10, AIX 5L and HP-UX 11. You can probably add OS X in a couple of months.

Gee, no Linux, duh.

The Al Qaeda computers found so far were running Windows, so should we boycott the Windows "The Choice of Terrorists" operating system?

No proof of your claim course. Nor have I ever seen them promoting Windows like communists do Linux.

56 posted on 03/09/2007 10:51:11 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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