RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

i thought linux was just unix designed to run on a PC. how different is the kernel?
>
> From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito_at_gridapp.com>
> Date: 2003/08/26 Tue PM 01:24:26 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??
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>
> And of course, there's the other free UNIXes - the BSDs (OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
> NetBSD). Tragically, none of these run Oracle (FreeBSD can run Oracle in
> Linux emulation mode - which seems backwards at best). And there's OS X,
> which is Apple's UNIX, and also runs Oracle.
>
> As far as AIX, I couldn't find an article to verify this, but I had thought
> IBM had announced that AIX would eventually be phased out in favor of Linux.
> This is not a short-term plan, obviously the existing install base of AIX
> precludes that. But, eventually... And if I imagined that announcement,
> I'd still wager money that its going to happen. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> > Behalf Of Mladen Gogala
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:24 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??
> >
> >
> > Well, IBM has AIX, a very solid and stable version of unix
> > which works really
> > well. SCO has become very popular lately and using SCO Unix
> > will turn you into the most popular guy on this list. Then
> > there is Irix, made by SGI. HP actually has several unix
> > versions Tru64, HP-UX, Tandem Unix, Ultrix, Apollo Unix and some
> > more exotic operating systems like OpenVMS, MPE, Guardian and
> > alike. If you go with HP, I do advise you to stick with HP-UX.
> >
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> > Mladen Gogala
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> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:19 AM
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> >
> > so different flavors of linux are more compatible?
> >
> > i thought the only two unix players out there now are HP and
> > Solaris. who else is out there?
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