Hannu and
UNIX variants and especially LINUX
About my own experience
I have used various UNIX versions in both my work and hobbies since the
beginning of year 1985. The hardware platforms I've used, and more or less
thoroughly got familiar with, include at least Convergent Miniframe, Motorola
6350, AT&T 3B4, IBM RT, H-P and a few other mini- and mainframe environments.
This means that I've had to go into at least Convergent, Motorola, AT&T,
IBM, H-P, SUN and SGI versions of UNIX. Everyone of these seems to have
tried to do their best to somehow diverge their product from the other
variants and to invent something incompatible to bind their customers into
the only genuine faith, which of course means their own version. Especially
my memories about IBM's AIX are anything but warm. I got the feeling that
everything they have been able to do differently from others, has been
done, besides a couple of things they weren't able to do. It was as though
they had done the whole AIX system only to demonstrate that UNIX doesn't
work.
BSD and nowadays particularly LINUX are the first UNIXes I'm
welcoming and hoping success from my heart, as they are not the hobby-horses
of any hardware vendor trying to monopolize the market.
Links
This page should become a collection of useful links and hints about Linux
and UNIX in general.
At this moment You may begin with: Linux
organization*
There are also some programs*
available for Linux.
C -gurus and others interested in C -programming, take a look here*.
