If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5081

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:24:38 +0000, stan

This depends on what you mean by "unix". What is, versus what is not, unix, is a long debate. AT&T had the original trademark, then sold it somewhere -- BSD can't officially claim it, I don't think (but am not sure), for all IÊknow SCO actually has the claim.

I never used unix. I used AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, and linux.

My point is that unix is, in reality, a file structure, scripting environment, and utility set, not a branded OS. From that point of view, linux is unix --- by far the most popular version ever.

AIX users never had this debate. They accepted that AIX was-is unix. The debate was always whether or not AIX was the worst unix ever. It was.

BTW, there are far more linux users than the sum total of all other users of anything that could be called unix -- unless you want to include Mac OSX in there, which is a Mach kernel, so might just qualify. So, to say that a "large pecentage" of linux users migrated from some other *nix is probably false (unless your definition of "large percentage" is, like, 10%).

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David L. Johnson

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