MacOSX is closer to real Unix (BSD derived flavor IIRC, aka Darwin), not Linux....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X
MacOSX is closer to real Unix (BSD derived flavor IIRC, aka Darwin), not Linux....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS_X
Ahh UNIX - what is "real UNIX"? Many years ago I was employed to develop and port a virtual run time system and compiler (written in C) between various flavors of Unix. Nowadays UNIX is pretty ubiquitous, but back then (in the 80's) UNIX came in all shapes and sizes (both SYS-V and BSD). They were not particularly compatible at the processor/machine architecture level. And some were not even compatible at the system utilities level (i.e. lp, cron etc)
I ported the virtual run time to these systems: XENIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC 32bit and Itanium 64bit), DG/UX, DEC OSF1 (Alpha 64bit), AIX, Solaris, UniSys Unix and a few other ones I can't remember.
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Paul
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I always loved the term "real unix", it is pretty humorous to say the least!
It is truly amazing how many flavors came from Unix and now Linux. I used to know HP-UX some and Solaris, and now MacOS. I passed my Unix Admin course, but honestly don't remember much! The funny thing is I passed all my scripting on my MacOS 10.3 (Panther), it was easier to use than Linux!
I know enough simply to be dangerous....
I knew Bell Labs System III... I can't remember how long ago...
I never got used to using DOS, I had learned the Unix commands first and they were first nature, DOS and I never got along....
Today, there is really only 3 major commercial Unix vendors left,
- HP
- IBM
- Solaris
While there are still a few other brands around ( like SGI, NCR MP-RAS, SCO, etc ) they really have a very minor market share and if there is any real development, it's probably aimed more toward an appliance based device.
Generally speaking and I really mean "generally", given the limited number of commercial Unix vendors, you can break it into 2 groups...
- HP-UX and Solaris: Pretty much SVR4 Unix with a few propriety addins. If you can administer HP or Sun with confidence, you can do pretty good in the other OS.
- IBM AIX: The easiest way to describe this is that it's a mainframe with a Unix like front end. ( I'll cop it from the AIX guys but it's the easiest way to describe it ).
The two groups have good and bad points, as you would expect. I've had pretty extensive exposure to most flavours of Unix and have seen the difference in them. AIX was the most difficult for me coming from an SVR4 background. But I can see there are great advantages in both HP-UX and AIX. Solaris on the other hand I can see slowly being replaced by a port of Linux.
Speaking of Linux and Unix, there is a major reason people in the Unix space will differentiate between the two. Basically, due to the historical architecture of the Linux kernel, it doesn't scale as well as a commercial UNIX and doesn't seem to have the data throughput of the big UNIX boxes. I ran a few tests a coup,e of years ago, pitting a 1Ghz HP PA-RISC CPU against a 3Ghz Linux Intel CPU. While the server architecture was different, the disk subsystem was the same, an HDS USP server connected via fibre. When attempting to compress a large data block ( 5GB ) the HP server was 3 times faster than the Linux box. Don't get me started on the "Itanic" processor though...
But, I still love Linux and my current main server at work is a quad core Linux box. It's all "horses for courses". I've also just built a Linux laptop up for my 13 yr old daughter to use. Lately, the only thing stopping me from ditching Windows all together is EFILive.......
Simon.
I have my HP-UX 11 install CD's somewhere.... Had a HP J210 (3 of them) dual processor and stacked with ram was going to install it on, but never got around to it, I just ditched them, talk about HEAVY machines! My last box was a Sun Ultra 60, dual 450 MHz ultraSparc processors, 2GB ram, SCSI160, man was it nice!
Yup, I hear you on that, would rather be on MacOS or Linux myself, but my wife likes her stuff that works better in IE7 and won't work right at all anywhere else, so I gave in.... But the kids all miss Linux... I had games galore and cool ones too....
Kernel 2.6.xx.xx has FTDI drivers in the Kernel , and HAL sees the V2 and apparently loads the correct drive for the FTDI chip .
FTDI says since Kernel 2.4.xx.xx the drivers have been include in the kernel here : http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
if you just have to have IE .
Minix is the best , Solaris 11 is still KDE (oops looks as if it can run Gnome also) on top of UNIX , or at least openSolaris : http://opensolaris.org/os/ it is ok .
Last edited by Chevy366; December 18th, 2008 at 03:40 PM.
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