Re: Comparison of Java, C# for development on Windows and future for them

kim bruning wrote:

> > The death of UNIX is imminent Linux will kill and
> > bury UNIX.
>
> That would be strange. Linux is a unix variant itself[1].

Actually, it's neither "a unix variant", nor is it "a unix compatible os".

<url: http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/pdf/ch-intro.pdf />

[In fact, Jon (Maddog) Hall tells us these days that it isn't even legal to say that Linux is "a Unix-like operating system" because we have never subjected Linux to the standards tests or applied for any such designation. Maddog suggests we say instead that "Unix is a Linux-like operating system"]

And simply because you can do ":%s/a unix variant/a unix compatible os/g" does not make the underlying "a unix variant" or "unix compatible".

> Also, Mac OS X
> seems to be doing quite well on the desktop, and that's a rather
> traditional looking unix really. [2]

Presumably the OP meant "The death of UNIX on the server is imminent", because there's never really been any unix on the desktop to speak of. However, as you have pointed out, this comment is actually 180 degrees wrong, because unix on the desktop is actually becoming viable in the form of OS X.

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