RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

The Linux kernel is totally different, though you will find some code in it that is from System 4 UNIX.

Linux is technically not a UNIX, thought it looks and feels and acts like one. It's also worth noting that all of the UNIXes have, at this point, significant differences in terms of their internals. There's even two whole styles of UNIX - System V and BSD with entirely different core codebases.

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> Subject: 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 ??

> > 

> > 

> > 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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> > > 

> > > 

> > > 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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> > > 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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